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

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El tiempo de duración del examen es de 90 mn.
Responda a las preguntas 1-15 en hoja de lectura óptica.
Puntuación: respuestas correctas: 0,5; cada respuesta incorrecta restará 0,1.

1.What is the Rheme in the sentence: “Hardly ever does she come to class on time.”?
a. Hardly.
b. Hardly ever.
c. Does she come.
d. Does she come to class on time.

2.What is ‘As far as I know’ in the sentence: “As far as I know there are three capital
cities in South Africa.”?
a. A style adjunct.
b. A domain adjunct.
c. An evaluative adjunct.
d. An evidential adjunct.

3.Which of the following elements is NOT a constituent of the clause: “For Christmas
the major brought bags of sweets for the children.”?
a. For Christmas.
b. The major.
c. Bags.
d. For the children.

4. Which of the following clauses is verbless?

a. Ok, I’ll do it.
b. Be quite, please.
c. Will you really?
d.No way!

5. Which of the following sentences contains a dependent wh-interrogative clause?

a. What do you think you’re doing?
b.Where is the city centre and how do I get there?
c.I asked the monitor how it is cooked.
d.What we said is how strange it all seemed.

6. What type of term is “much”?

a.Non-functional.
b.Non illocutionary.
c.Non-assertive.
d.Non-potential.
7.Which of the following sentences contains an Attribute?
a. They went to sleep.
b. She stayed in.
c. He took me to my appointment.
d. That noise drives me mad.

8.Which of the following elements are placed in the correct order?

a. The crowd clapped the singer on the stage for 25 minutes after the concert.
b. The crowd clapped for 25 minutes after the concert on the stage to the singer.
c. The crowd clapped after the concert to the singer for 25 minutes on the stage.
d. The crowd clapped on the stage after the concert to the singer for 25 minutes.

9. What is “to talk to Susan” in “It was difficult to talk to Susan with so many people
around her.”?
a.The subject.
b.The attribute.
c.The recipient.
d.The beneficiary.

10. Which of the following statements is true?

a. Cs pronouns are always objective.
b. Co pronouns are always objective.
c. Cs pronouns are always subjective.
d. Co pronouns are always subjective.

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

a. He went over there for the photograph.
b. It had been there all the time.
c. There are things still unknown to us.
d. There they had their victory.

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. What type of pattern involves an object and a complement?

a. Relational.
b. Complex-Transitive.
c. Ditransitive.
d. They are mutually incompatible.

14. What types of ditransitive complementation are there?

a.Oi+Od and Od+Prepositional Complement
b.Od+Oi and Co+Prepositional Complement
c.Co+Cs and Prepositional Complement+Circumstantial
d.Cs+Co and Attribute+Prepositional Complement
15.What is the pattern of ‘The police left the house in a mess.”?
a.SVOdOi
b.SVOdCo
d.SVPC

16. What is the speech act force of “I’d like to ask you for a favour.”?
a. A statement.
b. A declarative.
c. An explicit performative.
d. A hedged performative.

17. How does the speaker seek agreement 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 favour omission of the complementiser ‘that’?
a. When the main verb is “think” or “say”.
b. When the subject in the that- clause refers to a different entity than the subject of
the main clause.
c. When the head of the subject of the that- clause is a noun.
d. When there are two or more coordinated that- clauses.

19. Which of the following clauses is ungrammatical?

a.The speaker to whom I listened
b.The speaker whom I listened to
c.The child up whom I brought
d.The child that I brought up

20. What is the semantic structure of “The girl was thrilled by her new puppy.”?
a. Carrier + Process + Affected
b. Agent + Process + Resulting Attribute
c. Experiencer + Process + Phenomenon
d. Sayer + Process + Rheme