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Test yourself on Typology of syntactic level of English and Native
Languages
1.
Which of these is the best definition of syntax?
a) The study of the rules governing specifically the sounds that form words.
b) The study of the rules governing sentence formation.
c) The study of the rules governing word formation.
d) The study of the rules governing supra-segmental elements of the
language?
2.
Which Typology studies the syntactic structure of different languages?
a) Syntactic
b) Lexical and grammatical
c) Phonetic
and phonological
d) Semantic and formal
3.
Syntactic typology studies...
a) parts of
speech
b) word level
c) phoneme level
d) sentence level and phrase level
4.
Which of these morphemes can the majority of English nouns have added
to them?
a) –ing
b) –er
c) –s
d) un-
5.
In which sentence do the dots replace a noun?
a) They can ... them
b) They can ...
c) He has no ...
d) They … him
6.
Identify this sentence according to its type: "The old hotel at the end of the
street is going to be knocked down at the beginning of next year."
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a) complex
b) compound
c) simple
d) compound-complex
7.
What must every correct sentence have a ...?
a) transition word
b) subject and predicate
c) conjunction and verb
d) dependent and independent clause
8.
In Russian nouns can show gender (among other features). What feature(s)
can nouns in English show?
a) Case only
b) Number only
c) Case
and number
d) Number and person
9.
What is the smallest speech pattern?
a) Morpheme
b) Phrase
c) Phomeme
d) Semime
10.
What is word order in the language?
a) The agreement of
words in a phrase
b) The arrangement of words in a phrase, clause, or sentence
c) Subordination of clauses
d) Structure of
a phrase
11.
Define the sentence
a) It is the
smallest speech pattern
b) It is smallest meaningful unit
c) It is the basic unit of syntax
d) It is an important communicative unit
12.
Subordinator…
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a) joins two similarly constructed and/or syntactically equal words
b) contains an independent clause and at least one dependent clause
c) is a unit of communication
d) introduces a dependent clause, joining it to the main clause
13.
What language word-combination has extended type according to the
structure?
a) Russian
b) English
c) Arabic
d) Uzbek
14.
Independent and dependent are types of word combinations of…
a) English language
b) French language
c) Russian language
d) Uzbek language
15.
What languages are fond of long and colorful phrases?
a) Russian and Uzbek
b) Russian and English
c) English and Uzbek
d) English and French
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