REVISION TEST (4) 1920

I. Decide whether each of the following statements is true (T) or (F).

1. Four major lexical categories in English are nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.
2. The rules on how to put words together to form the grammatical sentences also refer to the
learner’s knowledge of their native language.
3. Two main ways to form new words in English are derivation and compounding.
4. Vocabulary is classified into lexical categories and functional categories.
5. Words are smallest, meaningful units of language.
6. The word blackboard is created through derivation.
7. Stem is the actual form to which a derivational is attached to.
8. Bound morphemes are classified into inflectional and derivational.
9. The subordination relation is the kind of syntactic relation in which two or more units or
constituents of the same rank are joined together.
10. Verbs are subdivided into transitive, intransitive, and linking verbs.
11. The noun phrase has a pronoun as its head.
12. Single word noun phrases always consist of a headword which is a pronoun.
13. Derivation is the process by which a new word is built from a base.
14. Clipping creates a new word without the use of affixation by simply assigning an already
existing word to a new syntactic category.
15. Conversion is a process whereby a word whose form is created by shortening a polysyllabic
word.
16. The head of a preposition phrase (PP) is a preposition.
17. A phrase in its complete form has two components: head, and complement.
18. The coordination relation is the kind of syntactic relation in which two or more units or
constituents of the same rank are joined together.
19. A simple sentence is a sentence that contains only one clause, an independent/ main clause.
20. A clause is a group of words with its own subject and predicate.

II. BLACKEN the most correct answer A, B, C or D.

21. The word presidential is an example of
A. Derivation B. Inflection C. Compounding `D. Clipping
22. The word exam is an example of
A. Derivation B. Inflection C. Compounding `D. Clipping
23. The word steamboat is an example of
A. Derivation B. Inflection C. Compounding `D. Blending
24. The word smog is an example of
A. Affixation B. Inflection C. Compounding D. Blending
25. The word mouthful is an example of
A. Affixation B. Compounding C. Blending D. Conversion
26. “quite good at maths” is an example of
A. a NP B. a VP C. an AdjP D. an AdvP
27. “out of sight” is an example of
A. a NP B. a VP C. a PrepP D. an AdvP
28. “those beautiful paintings by Goya” is an example of
A. a NP B. a VP C. an AdjP D. an AdvP
29. “very old memories” is an example of
A. a NP B. a VP C. an AdjP D. an AdvP
30. “will return home early” is an example of
A. a NP B. a VP C. an AdjP D. an AdvP
31. Which of the following patterns does the sentence “They elected him president” fit?
A. S-V-O B. S-V-O-C C. S-V-C D. S-V-O-A
32. Which of the following patterns does the sentence “He hanged the picture on the wall” fit?
A. S-V-O B. S-V-O-C C. S-V-C D. S-V-O-A
33. Which of the following patterns does the sentence “I feel lonely” fit?
A. S-V-O B. S-V-O-C C. S-V-C D. S-V-O-A
34. Which of the following patterns does the sentence “They borrowed money from her” fit?
A. S-V-O B. S-V-O-O C. S-V-C D. S-V-O-A
35. Which of the following patterns does the sentence “She drives her car slowly” fit?
A. S-V-O B. S-V-O-C C. S-V-C D. S-V-O-A
36. Which of the following relations does the sentence “Daisy kept quiet as the stranger came
into the house” fit?
A. Coordination B. Subordination C. Embedded D. Both A&C
37. Which of the following relations does the sentence “I think that you are right” fit?
A. Coordination B. Subordination C. Embedded D. None of them
38. Which of the following clause types does this clause “if you leave right now” fit?
A. Time clause B. Place clause C. Condition clause D. Purpose clause
39. Which of the following clause types does this clause “as soon as the plane landed” fit?
A. Time clause B. Place clause C. Condition clause D. Purpose clause
40. Which of the following clause types does this clause “so that it won’t blow away” fit?
A. Time clause B. Place clause C. Condition clause D. Purpose clause

III. Analyze the structure of the following phase and sentence by drawing tree diagrams.
1. Return home after summer holiday.
2. Clara delayed her graduation.
3. The rat must have been eaten by the dog..
4. I knew that he was dying.
5. He was unaware that everyone had confessed.
 T F T F T F T F
1 ● O O O 6 O ● O O 11 ● O O O 16 O ● O O
2 ● O O O 7 ● O O O 12 O ● O O 17 O ● O O
3 ● O O O 8 ● O O O 13 ● O O O 18 ● O O O
4 ● O O O 9 O ● O O 14 O ● O O 19 ● O O O
5 O ● O O 10 ● O O O 15 O ● O O 20 ● O O O
KEY TO REVISION TEST (4) 1920
I. TRUE/FALSE

II. MULTIPLE CHOICE

A B C D A B C D A B C D A B C D
21 ● O O O 26 O O ● O 31 O ● O O 36 O ● O O
22 O O O ● 27 O O ● O 32 O O O ● 37 O O ● O
23 O O ● O 28 ● O O O 33 O O ● O 38 O O ● O
24 O O O ● 29 ● O O O 34 O ● O O 39 ● O O O
25 ● O O O 30 O ● O O 35 O O O ● 40 O O O ●

III. TREE-BRANCHING DIAGRAMS

VP

V
NP

N
PP

Prep NP

N N
Return home after summer holiday
S

NP VP

N V NP

Det N
Clara delayed her graduation