1. What is lexeme? a) nominative unit of language; c) syntactic unit;
b) the smallest meaningless unit; d) phonetic unit;
2. What is the object of study of morphology ? a) the way of changing grammatical forms of word
b) parts of speech and sentence structure
c) the system of form - changing and sentence - building
d) a,c
3. What kind of morpheme is the underlined one “recordsman”? a) discontinuous; c) empty;
b) zero; d) lexical;
4. Grammatical meaning of a word is expressed with the help of… a) derivational affixes
b) grammatical form
c) there is no a correct answer
d) affixation, derivational morphemes
5. What is the distinction between language and speech? a) language tends to change while speech is stable, less changeable;
b) language is individual while speech is common, general for bearers;
c) language is concrete; speech is abstract;
d) language is a closed system, its units are limited while speech tends to to be openness and endless;
6. Notional verbs have… a) a full of lexical meaning
b) no lexical meaning
c) partly lost their lexical meaning
d) there is no a correct answer
7. Which of the following topics are the subject-matter of grammar? a) the stylistic devices;
b) the types of phonemes;
c) the grouping requirements of the parts of speech;
d) neologisms;
8. The grammatical category of aspect is a: a) two-member opposition; c) four-member opposition;
b) three-member opposition; d) none of them;
9. What is the main difference between grammatical inflexions of Uzbek and Russian languages? a) in Uzbek the majority of grammatical inflections have one meaning while in Russian one grammatical inflection can express two or more grammatical meanings;
b) in Uzbek the majority of grammatical inflections can express more than one meaning while in Russian each grammatical inflection has its own meaning;
c) there`s no difference between them;
d) none of the answers are correct;
10. If morphemes are used either to connect words in sentences or form new grammatical forms of words, they are called: a) lexical morpheme;
b) lexical – grammatical morpheme;
c) grammatical morpheme;
d) none of them;
11. What type of phrase is “Norman invasion”? a) attributive subordination; c) infinitival;
b) predicative; d) gerundial;
12. Which grammatical categories of the English language is expressed by synthetical grammatical means? a) number of nouns; c) aspect of verbs
b) posteriority of verbs; d) none of them
13. What sound changes are there in the contemporary English language? a) only root – vowel change;
b) only final consonant change;
c) both root vowel and final consonant change;
d) there are all those three above mentioned sound changes;
14. What does coordination mean? a) homogeneous parts of the sentence
b) a special kind of syntactical relation existing between words
c) the system of paradigmatic relations
d) a,b
15. Which type of relations between words does “formal identity” refer to? a) syntagmatic; c) both paradigmatic and syntagmatic
b) paradigmatic; d) none of them.
1A
2A
3C
4A
5D
6A
7C
8A
9A
10C
11A
12A
13C
14B
15B