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ĐỀ THI GIỮA KỲ -HK 1 /NĂM HỌC 2023-2024

Môn thi: Cú pháp-Hình thái học
Thời gian làm bài: 60 phút
Lớp: VB2E/ Ngành: Ngôn ngữ Anh
Hệ: Đại học /Đề thi số: 00
Part 1. Morphology (4 marks)
I. Circle the best answer for each of the followings. (1 mark)
1.The study of the construction of words out of morphemes is .
A. morphemes B. morphology C. phonomorphology
2.–ed as in “He washed the car,” is a/an .
A. inflectional morpheme B. derivational morpheme C. free phoneme
3.The smallest linguistic unit that has meaning or grammatical function is a/an .
A. bound morpheme B. derivational morphemes C. morpheme
4.–en as in “the golden years” is derivational because it changes the word from .
A. noun => verb B. noun => adjective C. verb => adjective
5.Morphemes that carry a semantic content as opposed to performing a grammatical function .
A. function morphemes B. content morphemes C. derivational morphemes
6.–ing as in “She is studying everyday,” is a/an ___________.
A. inflectional morpheme B. derivational morpheme C. free phoneme
7.Morphemes that change the meaning or lexical category of the words to which they attach are
.
A. derivational morphemes B. inflectional morphemes C. bound morphemes
8.Bound morphemes that change the meaning or syntactic function of the words to which they attach are
.
A. prefixes B. suffixes C. affixes
9.Morphemes that provide information about the grammatical relationships of words _____.
A. function morphemes B. content morphemes C. derivational morphemes
10. –ive as in descriptive is derivational because it changes the word from ________.
A. verb => noun B. noun => adjective C. verb => adjective
11. Morphemes that serve a purely grammatical function, never creating a new word but only a different
form of the same word are __________.
A. derivational morphemes B. inflectional morphemes C. content morphemes
12. If you divide the word “computers” into its component morphemes, the root would be _______.
A. computer B. -s C. compute
13. –s as in “He walks to school,” is a/an ________.
A. inflectional morpheme B. derivational morpheme C. free phoneme
14. Non-distinctive realizations of a particular morpheme that have the same function and are phonetically
similar are __________.
A. phonemes B. allophones C. allomorphs
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15. An affix that attaches to the beginning of a stem is a/an .
A. suffix B. prefix C. affix
16. A free morpheme is one around which words can be built up through the .
A. addition of affixes B. addition of suffixes C. addition of prefix
17. –tion as in “Radiation leaked out of the plant,” is a/an_________.
A. inflectional morpheme B. derivational morpheme C. free phoneme
18. An affix that attaches to the end of a stem; in English, may be inflectional or derivational.
A. prefix B. suffix C. affix
19. English “–er” as in “ride => rider”, and “read => reader” is a/an __________ morpheme.
A. derivational B. inflectional C. functional
20. If you divide isolated into its component morphemes, the root would be _______.
A. isolation B. isolate C. isola-
II. Identify the bound morpheme(s) in of each of the given words. (1 mark)
Q word bound morphemes Q word bound morphemes
0 speaker -er 0. earlier -er
1 kingdom 6 intervene
2 syllabic 7 revise
3 idolize 8 worked
4 selective 9 undo
5 television 10 immoral
III. Write the meaning of the underlined morphemes, and give your own examples. (1 mark)
Q Morpheme(s) Meanings Examples
0 antedate in front of, before antecedent
1 manly
2 malfunction
3 precede
4 democracy
5 eastward
6 microscope
7 dynamic
8 hydrophone
9 airport
10 thermonuclear

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IV. Give the original word(s) and identify the processes of word formation of the following. Provide
one example to illustrate each type of processes. (1 mark)
Q Word Original words PROCESS
0 WHO World Health Organization Acronymy
1 medicare

2 smog

3 disappear

4 edit

5 CEO

6 MERS

7 brunch

beg
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9 taxi

10 SARS

PART TWO: SYNTAX (6 marks)

1. What is a relative clause/an adjective clause? Give an example to illustrate. (2 mark2)

2. Indicate the patterns of the following sentences by writing: SV, SVC, SVA, etc. (2 marks)
a. He found a box empty.
b. Minh often travels to Hanoi.
3. Draw the tree diagram for the following sentence. (2 marks)
She stayed in the city last week.