Exercise#2. Read the statements below and choose whether they are True or
False.
11. False
12. True
13. True
14. False
15. False
16. True
17. False
18. True
19. False
20. True
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Test yourself on Typology of morphological level of English and Native
Languages
1. According to the relations of elements, languages are classified into…
a) *Agglutinative, Flexional, Isolating, Polysynthetic
b) Flexional, Agglutinative, Polysynthetic, Monosynthetic
c) Polysynthetic, Flexional, Non-flexional, Isolating
d) Isolating, Non-agglutinative, Polyflexional, Polysenthetic
2. Category of plurality can be expressed in Modern English by
a) *Morphological means, Syntactic means, Phono-morphological, Lexical
b) Morphological means, Phono-morphological
c) Syntactic means, Lexical
d) Phono-morphological, Lexical
3. Choose the right answer:
a) * Gender is a lexical-grammatical category. Sex is used to denote biological
notions and it is usually used for animate objects
b) Gender is a lexical-grammatical category
c) Gender is used to denote biological notions
d) Sex is usually used for animate objects
4. Choose the variant with grammatical category of gender
a) *пожилой мужчина
b) Very big house
c) Her beautiful face
d) Green tree
5. Primary grammatical categories are…
a) *Parts of speech
b) The category of gender
c) Verbal categories
d) Degrees of comparison
6. Secondary grammatical categories are…
a) *Categories within every part of speech
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b) Noun
c) Verb
d) Article
7. The category of plurality is expressed by morphological means… choose the
correct answer
a) *boy – boys
b) much milk
c) class – people
d) foot – feet
8. The category of plurality is expressed by phono-morphological means…
a) *tooth – teeth
b) Class – people
c) Girl – girls
d) a lot of students
9. The category of plurality is expressed by syntactic means…
a) *A lot of English books
b) Goose – geese
c) flower – flowers
d) class – people
10. Traditional grammatical categories consist of:
a) *Grammatical form and grammatical meaning
b) Grammatical categorization
c) Analysis and synthesis
d) Grammatical analysis
11. What are the types of languages due to typological classification?
a) Isolating, polysynthetic, agglutinative, flexional
b) Diachronic and synchronic
c) *Polysynthetic, isolating, agglutinative, flexional
d) Isolating, agglutinative
12. What is the type of language that is characterized by the absence of inflections
and affixational morphemes expressing word relations?
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a) *Isolating
b) Agglutinative
c) Flexional
d) Polysynthatic
13. What language has non –developed morphology?
a) *Chinese
b) Uzbek
c) Latin
d) English
14. What languages does dual number exist in?
a) *Sanscrit, Greek, Old English
b) Modern English, French, Uzbek
c) Russian, German, Chinese
d) English, Chinese, French
15. What are languages given below genetically differently related ones?
a) *English and Russian
b) Russian and Uzbek
c) Uzbek and Kazakh
d) Kirgiz and Russian
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