Theoretical grammar (S2)

Part-of-speech classification is based on:

• the meaning of the word

• the syntactic function of the word

• the form of the word

• the unity of the semantic, morphological and syntactic criteria

The leading criterion of classification into parts of speech in English is

• semantic

• morphological

• syntactic

Identify the part of speech the underlined word belongs to:

1) You get full marks for the right answer

• noun

• verb

• adjective

• adverb

Identify the part of speech the underlined word belongs to:

2) The hotel is right on the beach.

• noun

• verb

• adjective

• adverb

Identify the part of speech the underlined word belongs to:

3) Wrongs should be righted by the vote and not by violence.

• noun

• verb

• adjective

• adverb

Identify the part of speech the underlined word belongs to:

4) Authors should be protected over their rights.

• noun

• verb

• adjective

• adverb

Pronouns belong to:

• open-class notional words

• closed-class structural words (pro-words)

• closed-class functional (formal) words

Choose the statement about formal words that is not correct:

• they have no lexical meaning

• they have obligatory combinability

• their syntactic function is that of linking or specifying

The forms cows, oxen, geese, sheep are in … distribution.

• contrastive

• non-contrastive

• complementary

Mark the statement about the category of number of the noun that is correct:

• All nouns in the Singular have the Plural form.

• All nouns in the Plural have the Singular form.

• Uncountable nouns can be Singular or Plural.