Gramática Inglesa (Grado en Estudios Ingleses) – Septiembre 2020 Modelo U

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El tiempo de duración del examen es de 90 mn.
Responda a las preguntas 1-20 en hoja de lectura óptica.
Puntuación: respuestas correctas: 0,5; cada respuesta incorrecta restará 0,1.

1.What is the Theme in the sentence: “Never had he been so nicely treated.”?
a. An operator.
b. A circumstance.
c. A participant.
d. An illocutionary force.

2.What is the Adjunct in the sentence: “When in Rome do as the Romans do.”?
a. The unmarked Rheme.
b. The marked Theme.
c. The Focus.
d. The absolute Dislocation.

3.Which of the following elements is NOT a constituent of the clause: “The children
in the village loved to see the Christmas decorations at night.”?
a. The children
b. The children in the village
c. The Christmas decorations
d. At night

4. Which of the following clauses is abbreviated?

a. I agree with you.
b. Ten are the maximum.
c. Shall I?
d.No way!

5. Which of the following sentences contains a nominal relative clause?

a. What I’m saying is that you should keep off the grass!
b. She asked me how I felt.
c. I think you should take that road and turn left.
d.If it rains, I will take an umbrella.

6. What type of term is “yet”?

a.Non-functional.
b.Non illocutionary.
c.Non-assertive.
d.Non-potential.

7.What is the non-essential constituent in: “The wedding ceremony only lasted 20
minutes.”?
a. The wedding ceremony
b. Only.
c. Lasted.
d. 20 minutes.
8.Which of the following circumstantials are placed in the correct order?
a. The contestant skied 100 metres down the slope into the valley for the final.
b. The contestant skied for the final down the slope 100 metres into the valley.
c. The contestant skied into the valley for the final 100 metres down the slope.
d. The contestant skied down the slope into the valley for the final 100 metres.

9. What is “for me to try” in “It was a challenge for the students to pass given the
difficult circumstances.”?
a.The subject.
b.The attribute.
c.The recipient.
d.The beneficiary.

10. Which of the following sentences does NOT contain a dummy subject?
a.It’s late so it’s time for me to leave.
b.It’s pouring cats and dogs.
c.It’s a tough decision to make.
d.It’s a charming resort to visit.

11. Which of the following sentences contains unstressed ‘there’?

a. Look over there!
b. Walk to the end of the street and you’ll find it there on your right.
c. There’s a man waiting outside.
d. There she goes in her new shoes.

12. Which of the following is NOT a main type of process that can be semantically
encoded by the predicator?
a.Mental.
b. Relational.
c. Material.
d.Primary.

13. Which of the following statements about anticipatory it is correct?

a.It is always semantically empty.
b.It always appears at the beginning of the sentence.
c.It always fulfils the subject position.
d.It is always the consequence of a long and heavy subject.

14. Identify the sentence that contains a prepositional verb:

a.The older children sometimes try to get at him.
b.The smell of that fish immediately put me off.
c.I’ll get back as soon as the doctor arrives.
d.They turned up after the band had left.

15.What is the pattern of ‘The Americans elected Trump president.”?

a.SVOdOi
b.SVOdCo
c.SVOiOd
d.SVPC
16. What is the speech act force of “I guess you are too tired to give me a lift.”?
a. An offer
b. A declarative.
c. A directive.
d. A rebuke.

17. How does the speaker express doubt with a question tag?
a. Using a tag that has opposite polarity and a rising tone.
b. Using a tag that has opposite polarity and a falling tone.
c. Using a tag that has constant polarity and a rising tone.
d. Using a tag that has constant polarity and a falling tone.

18. Which of the following factors does NOT favour that the complementiser ‘that’ is
retained in the clause?
a. When the subject in the that- clause refers to a different entity than the subject of
the main clause.
b. When the head of the subject of the that- clause is a noun.
c. When there are two or more coordinated that- clauses.
d. When the main clause is in the active voice.

19. Which of the following clauses is grammatical?

a. The cattle after which I looked
b. The father after whom the child takes
c. The flat into which the burglars broke
d. The people for whom we care

20. What is the semantic structure of “The singer was on the stage”?
a. Carrier + Process + Attribute
b. Agent + Process + Affected
c. Experiencer + Process + Phenomenon
d. Sayer + Process + Rheme