Theoretical english grammar assessment

202. Why are prepositions and conjunctions said to refer to grammatical means? Because ……..
a) they are used to connect words in sentences;
b) they are used to express plurality;
c) they are used to form degrees of comparison of adverbs;
d) they are used to express emotion;
203. Which grammatical category has such particular meanings as “absolute posteriority” and “relative posteriority”?
a) voice; c) posteriority;
b) order; d) tense;
204. Which grammatical category expresses singular and plural meanings?
a) case of nouns; c) gender;
b) number of nouns; d) degrees of comparison;
205. Which notional parts of speech have similar grammatical categories?
a) verbs and adjectives;
b) adjectives and adverbs;
c) numerals and statives;
d) pronouns and numerals;
206. Which notional part of speech has no grammatical category?
a) verbs; c) nouns;
b) statives; d) adverbs;
207. What is the difference between the morphemes – er in the following two words: dealer, cleverer?
In the first word it is a _________________
In the second word it is a ________________
208. Which grammatical categories make use of the verb “to be as its means of expression?
a) aspect; c) voice;
b) order; d) degrees of comparison.
209. Which parts` of speech make use suppletion to express the forms of grammatical categories?
a) statives; c) nouns;
b) verbs; d) numerals
210. How many particular meanings are there in the grammatical categories of case of nouns in English, Uzbek and Russian?
a) In English there are _________
b) In Uzbek there are __________
c) In Russian there are _________
211. What is the difference between the grammatical categories of number of nouns in English and Latin? Compare the following examples:
a) English (date – dates) b) Latin (datum – data)