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**[Find the true statement:]** 2. **[Find the true statement:]** - **nouns in English can be of masculine, feminine or neuter gender.** 3. **[Find the true statement:]** - **most nouns are of neuter gender** 4. **[Find the true statement: ]** - **adjectives and adverbs are different p...

**[Find the true statement:]** 2. **[Find the true statement:]** - **nouns in English can be of masculine, feminine or neuter gender.** 3. **[Find the true statement:]** - **most nouns are of neuter gender** 4. **[Find the true statement: ]** - **adjectives and adverbs are different parts of speech.** 5. **[Find the true statement:]** - **most qualitative adjectives are characterized by the category of the degrees of comparison** 6. **[Find the true statement about numerals: ]** - **numerals are a notional part of speech (in the traditional classification).** 7. **[Find the true statement:]** - **reciprocal pronouns are like "each other", "one another".** 8. **[Find the true statement:]** - **demonstrative pronouns have the grammatical category of number (e. g., this -- these)** 9. **[Find the true statement:]** - **modal words function as parenthetical elements in a sentence** 10. **[Find the false statement:]** - **the noun is a functional word** 11. **[Find the false statement:]** - **notional parts of speech don't perform any functions in a sentence.** 12. **[Find the false statement:]** - **notional parts of speech are used for connecting notional words** 13. **[Find the false statement:]** - **a sentence is a unit of phonetics** 14. **[Find the false statement:]** - **functional parts of speech are characterized by word-building properties** 15. **[Find the false statement:]** - **functional parts of speech are characterized by some lexical meaning.** 16. **[Find the false statement:]** - **the verb has three grammatical categories.** 17. **[Find the false statement about this opposition: take --takes:]** - **it's a privative binary opposition.** 18. **[Find the false statement about the analytical word "more quickly":]** - **it is a superlative form.** 19. **[Find the false statement: ]** - **modal words function as predicates**. 20. **[Find the false statement about the form "more often":]** - **it is a superlative form** 21. **[Find the false statement about this opposition: arrive --have arrived:]** - **the opposition shows that verbs have the grammatical category of finitude** 22. **[Find the false statement about numerals:]** - **numerals are a functional part of speech (in the traditional classification)** 23. **[Choose the complex sentence:]** - **When he comes home, I'll be sleeping.** 24. **[Choose a complex sentence:]** - **If the weather is fine, we shall go for a walk** 25. **[Choose a compound sentence with a clause of result:]** - **He played so well that everyone believed him.** 26. **[Choose a compound sentence:]** - **She is a waitress and he is a student** 27. **[Find the semi-compound sentence:]** - **She woke up and looked at the clock.** 28. **[Syntagmatic relations are known as:]** - **speech relations.** 29. **[Syntagmatic relations are known as:]** - **linear relations** 30. **[Syntagmatic relations are established:]** - **language units in speech.** 31. **[Syntagmatic relations are:]** - **relations between language units in speech** 32. **[An example of syntagmatic relations in grammar is:]** - **un-believ-able.** 33. **[An example of syntagmatic relations in grammar is:]** - **un-avoid-able** 34. **[Paradigmatic relations are referred to as:]** - **language relations.** 35. **[Paradigmatic relations are:]** - **relations between language units in the language system** 36. **[Paradigmatic relations are known as:]** - **systematic relations** 37. **[Paradigmatic relations are established:]** - **between different language units.** 38. **[The combination of words "go away" is an example of:]** - **syntagmatic relations.** 39. **[An example of paradigmatic relations in grammar is:]** - **do it -- don't do it.** 40. **[An example of paradigmatic relations in grammar is:]** - **tall -- taller -- the tallest.** 41. **[An example of paradigmatic relations in grammar is:]** - **bright -- brighter -- the brightest** 42. **[An example of paradigmatic relations in grammar is:]** - **sanatorium -- sanatoria** 43. **[An example of paradigmatic relations in grammar is:]** - **comes -- has come.** 44. **[Find the example of paradigmatic relations between grammatical units:]** - **un- -- il-** 45. **[The grammar of the sentence is referred to as:]** - **major syntax.** 46. **[The grammar of the sentence is known as:]** - **major syntax** 47. **[The grammar of word groups is referred to as:]** - **minor syntax.** 48. **[The grammar of word groups is known as:]** - **minor syntax** 49. **[Grammar is about:]** - **morphemics, parts of speech, word combinations and sentences.** 50. **[Grammar comprises:]** - **morphology and syntax ** 51. **[Theoretical grammar is known as:]** - **descriptive** 52. **[Theoretical grammar:]** - **analyzes the grammatical system of the language ** 53. **[Theoretical grammar is referred to as:]** - **non-practical.** 54. **[Theoretical grammar of Modern English:]** - **studies the English grammar.** 55. **[Practical grammar of Modern English:]** - **teaches how to speak and write English.** 56. **[Practical grammar is referred to as:]** - **applied.** 57. **[Practical grammar is known as:]** - **prescriptive** 58. **[Practical grammar:]** - **explains how to correctly build sentences, word-forms, etc, explains how to use a language** 59. **[Syntax is about:]** - **word combinations.** 60. **[Syntax is about:]** - **word groups and sentences** 61. **[Syntax is not about:]** - **morphemes.** 62. **[Syntax comprises:]** - **word groups and sentences ** 63. **[One of the methods of syntax that helps analyze a sentence, see the hierarchy of the structures making up the sentence is:]** - **the method of immediate constituents (the IC-model) ** 64. **[Morphology comprises:]** - **morphemics and grammatical classes of words** 65. **[Morphology is about:]** - **parts of speech and morphemes.** 66. **[Morphology is about:]** - **words and morphemes** 67. **[Morphology is not about:]** - **word groups.** 68. **[Lexico-grammatical meaning:]** - **a part-of-speech meaning that is not expressed linguistically.** 69. **[A grammatical class of words characterized by the same lexico-grammatical meaning is usually referred to as:]** - **a part of speech.** 70. **[Say what we call a grammatical class of words characterized by the same lexico-grammatical meaning, identical grammatical categories, common syntactical functions, combinability patterns and affixation types:]** - **a part of speech** 71. **[A part-of-speech meaning that is not expressed grammatically (formally) is known as:]** - **lexico-grammatical meaning** 72. **[The lexico-grammatical meaning of the word "sugar" is:]** - **substance.** 73. **[State the lexico-grammatical meaning of the word "buy":]** - **action** 74. **[Say what part of speech is characterized by the lexico-grammatical meaning of thingness (substance):]** - **a noun.** 75. **[Say what part of speech is characterized by the lexico-grammatical meaning of action:]** - **a verb** 76. **[Say what part of speech is not characterized by any lexico-grammatical meaning:]** - **a preposition.** 77. **[The lexico-grammatical meaning of the adjective is:]** - **attribute.** 78. **[The lexico-grammatical meaning of the noun is:]** - **thingness/substance** 79. **[Lexical meaning is:]** - **an individual meaning of the word.** 80. **[An individual meaning of the word is known as:]** - **lexical meaning** 81. **[Grammeme is:]** - **grammatical meaning.** 82. **[An element (value) of the grammatical category is known as:]** - **grammeme (grammatical meaning)** 83. **[The word-form "has been put" has the following grammemes:]** - **present tense, perfect order, passive voice, non-continuous aspect, singular number, third person.** 84. **[Say what grammeme(s) the word-form "lionesses'" has the following grammemes:]** - **plural number, possessive case, feminine gender.** 85. **[The word-form "is standing" has the following grammemes:]** - **present tense, continuous aspect, active voice, singular number, third person** 86. **[Say what grammeme(s) the word-form "waitress's" has the following grammemes:]** - **singular number, possessive case, feminine gender** 87. **[Find the semantic type of lexical paradigm of nomination:]** - **distance -- distant -- distantly -- unjoint.** 88. **[Find the semantic type of lexical paradigm of nomination:]** - **an end -- to end -- final -- finally** 89. **[Find the phrasemic type of lexical paradigm of nomination:]** - **white -- whiten -- whiteness -- in white.** 90. **[Find the phrasemic type of lexical paradigm of nomination:]** - **gratitude -- grateful -- gratefully -- to express gratitude** 91. **[Find the example of a lexical paradigm of nomination:]** - **simple -- simply -- simplicity -- simplify.** 92. **[Find the example of a lexical paradigm of nomination:]** - **a picture -- to picture -- picturesque -- picturesquely** 93. **[Say which of the following words can't finish the lexical paradigm of nomination "simple -- simply -- simplicity --...":]** - **simpler.** 94. **[Say which of the following words can't finish the lexical paradigm of nomination "interest -- to interest -- interesting --...":]** - **hallo ** 95. **[A set of different forms of one word is known as:]** - **grammatical paradigm** 96. **[A semantically basic word of the grammatical paradigm is:]** - **lexeme.** 97. **[Find a grammatical paradigm:]** - **come -- comes -- have come -- has come -- had come, etc.** 98. **[Find a grammatical paradigm:]** - **lay -- laid -- was lain -- is laying, will lay, etc** 99. **[Give the lexeme of the grammatical paradigm "come -- comes -- have come -- has come -- had come, etc." is:]** - **come.** 100. **[Choose the set of words which is a true and complete grammatical paradigm of the word "lady":]** - **lady -- ladies -- lady's -- ladies'.** 101. **[Choose the set of words which is a true and complete grammatical paradigm of the word "woman":]** - **woman -- women -- woman's -- women's** 102. **[Give the lexeme of the grammatical paradigm "Am, is, are, was, weren't, etc." is:]** - **be** 103. **[All the grammatical forms of the word are referred to as:]** - **a grammatical paradigm.** 104. **[A definite form of the word is referred to as:]** - **grammatical form.** 105. **[A definite form of a word, for example the singular form of a noun is known as:]** - **grammatical form ** 106. **[A group of grammatical forms opposed to each other in some way is known as:]** - **grammatical opposition** 107. **["Boy -- boys" is an example of:]** - **grammatical opposition.** 108. **[An example of a privative grammatical opposition is:]** - **do -- will do.** 109. **[The member of a grammatical opposition that has some grammatical marker (inflexions, grammatical suffixes or word-morphemes) is called:]** - **strong (marked)** 110. **[The member of a grammatical opposition that has no grammatical markers (inflexions, grammatical suffixes or word-morphemes) is called:]** - **weak (unmarked) ** 111. **[Members of the opposition can be:]** - **strong and weak.** 112. **[The unmarked member of the opposition is referred to as:]** - **weak.** 113. **[Privative oppositions have:]** - **both marked and unmarked members.** 114. **[An example of a privative opposition is:]** - **comes -- has come** 115. **[Gradual oppositions have:]** - **both marked and unmarked members.** 116. **[Gradual positions have:]** - **marked and unmarked members** 117. **[Say what type of opposition it is (difficult -- more difficult -- the most difficult):]** - **gradual** 118. **[Say what type of opposition it is (expensive -- more expensive -- the most expensive):]** - **gradual.** 119. **[The wrong example of a gradual opposition is:]** - **quick -- more quickly -- the most quickly.** 120. **[An example of a gradual opposition is:]** - **busy -- busier -- the busiest** 121. **["Quick -- quicker -- the quickest" is an example of :]** - **gradual opposition.** 122. **[A contrastive group of members distinguished not by the presence or absence of a grammatical feature but by its intensity is known as:]** - **gradual opposition** 123. **[Equipollent oppositions have:]** - **only strong members.** 124. **[Equipollent oppositions have:]** - **only marked members** 125. **[A contrastive group of members distinguished by different positive grammatical features is known as:]** - **equipollent opposition** 126. **[A contrastive group of marked members is referred to as:]** - **equipollent opposition.** 127. **[An example of an equipollent opposition is:]** - **am doing -- is doing.** 128. **[An example of an equipollent opposition is:]** - **shall come -- should come** 129. **[The most common type of oppositions is:]** - **privative opposition.** 130. **[The most common type of oppositions is:]** - **binary privative opposition** 131. **[A grammatical category is:]** - **a part-of-speech meaning expressed linguistically.** 132. **[A part-of-speech meaning that is expressed grammatically (formally) is known as:]** - **grammatical category** 133. **[Nouns don't have the grammatical category of:]** - **numerical qualification.** 134. **[There are no theories that say that the noun has the grammatical category of:]** - **order** 135. **[No theory suggests that verbs have the grammatical category of:]** - **degrees of comparison** 136. **[Verbs don't have the grammatical category of:]** - **numerical qualification.** 137. **[Say which opposition proves that verbs are characterized by the grammatical category of posteriority:]** - **will come -- would come** 138. **[Name the type of relations established between the words "sweep -- swept":]** - **paradigmatic.** 139. **[Name the type of relations established between words in a word group:]** - **syntagmatic** 140. **[Name the type of relations established between morphs in a word:]** - **syntagmatic.** 141. **[Name the type of relations established between words and word groups in a sentence:]** - **syntagmatic** 142. **[The relations between the morphs change- and -able in the word "change-able" are of:]** - **syntagmatic character.** 143. **[Name the type of relations established between the morphemes un- and -real in the word "un-real":]** - **syntagmatic** 144. **[A word group with syntactically equal members: ]** - **coordination.** 145. **[Define the type of syntactic relations ("tea and coffee"):]** - **syndetic coordination ** 146. **[Find the syndetic coordination:]** - **black and white** 147. **[Find the asyndetic coordination:]** - **yellow, red, blue** 148. **[Find the asyndetic coordination: ]** - **rice, rye, buckwheat.** 149. **[Define the type of syntactic relations ("that guy"): ]** - **agreement.** 150. **[Define the type of syntactic relations ("those things"):]** - **agreement** 151. **[Choose the phrase with agreement (not government or adjunction!):]** - **these students** 152. **[Define the type of syntactic relations ("throw to them"): ]** - **government.** 153. **[Define the type of syntactic relations ("lie to me"):]** - **government** 154. **[Define the type of syntactic relations ("Father's car"):]** - **government** 155. **[A way of syntactic connection when the head-word of a subordinate word-group requires of its adjunct to assume an appropriate grammatical form (usually a case-form): ]** - **government.** 156. **[Choose the phrase with government (not agreement or adjunction!):]** - **kiss him** 157. **[Give the synonym to the word "adjunction":]** - **adjoinment** 158. **[Define the type of syntactic relations ("came yesterday"):]** - **adjunction** 159. **[Choose the phrase with adjunction (not agreement or government): ]** - **visit London.** 160. **[Choose the phrase with adjunction (not agreement or government):]** - **drink water** 161. **[Linking of two or more notional words that have the same syntactical function in a sentence:]** - **coordination** 162. **[The basic naming unit of the language is:]** - **word.** 163. **[The main features of the word are:]** - **isolatability, indivisibility, positional mobility.** 164. **[One of the main features of a word is...:]** - **isolatability.** 165. **[One of the main features of a word is isolatability implying the following:]** - **a word can become/form a sentence** 166. **[One of the main features of a word is positional mobility implying the following:]** - **a word can have different positions in a sentence ** 167. **[Positional mobility (as a word feature) is about the following:]** - a word can become/form a sentence. - **the position of the word in a sentence is not fixed.** 168. **[One of the main features of a word is indivisibility implying the following:]** - **semantic integrity** 169. **[Semantic integrity (as a feature of the word) is about the following:]** - **indivisibility.** 170. **[Words are of double nature, because:]** - **the word is a unity of the form and the content.** 171. **[The content of the word is:]** - **its meaning.** 172. **[The form of the word is:]** - **its material representation.** 173. **[A meaningful part of the word is:]** - **morpheme.** 174. **[Lexical morphemes are:]** - **roots.** 175. **[The lexical morpheme in the word "unbelievable" is:]** - **believ.** 176. **[Grammatical morphemes are:]** - **inflections and some suffixes.** 177. **[-able (e. g., avoid-able) is:]** - **a lexico-grammatical morpheme.** 178. **[-ing and -ed are:]** - **different morphemes.** 179. **[A phonetic and orthographic variant of the morpheme is called:]** - **a morph.** 180. **[The morpheme of such morphs as -s (e. g. book-s), -es (e. g. box-es), -i (e. g. m-i-ce), -a (e. g. phenomen-a) is:]** - **-s** 181. **[Find the line containing different morphs of the same morpheme:]** - **childr-en, m-i-ce, formula-e.** 182. **[Find the line with different morphs of the same morpheme:]** - **translat-ed, beg-a-n, learn-t** 183. **[A language unit that comes between the word and the sentence in the hierarchy of grammatical units is:]** - **word group (phrase) ** 184. **[Give the synonym to the word "word group":]** - **phrase** 185. **[Find the subordinate (not coordinate!) phrase:]** - **written in pencil** 186. **[Find the subordinate (not coordinate!) phrase: ]** - **an expensive hotel.** 187. **[Find the subordinate (not coordinate!) phrase:]** - **the roof of the house** 188. **[Find the coordinative (not subordinate!) phrase:]** - **the Dutch and the Danes** 189. **[Find the coordinative (not subordinate!) phrase:]** - **physics and maths** 190. **[Choose the example with the word "within" as an adverbial modifier (not a preposition!):]** - **He was not to be found within** 191. **[Choose the phrase with a prepositional modifier: ]** - **waiting room.** 192. **[Choose the phrase with a prepositional modifier:]** - **John's sister** 193. **[Choose the phrase with a postpositional modifier:]** - **a program to watch** 194. **[Language units that don't fall within the scope of grammar are:]** - **syllables** 195. **[The distributional classification of parts of speech (by Charles Fries) divides all words in the English language into:]** - **four main classes of words and 15 functional parts of words** 196. **[Say what type of distribution is shown by such morphemes as -ed and -t (e. g., learn-ed -- learn-t):]** - **non-contrastive distribution.** 197. **[Say what type of distribution is shown by such morphemes as -ed and -ing (e. g., learn-ed -- learn-ing):]** - **contrastive distribution.** 198. **[Say what type of distribution is shown by such prefixes as im- and dis- (e. g., im-possible -- dis-satisfied):]** - **complementary distribution.** 199. **[Say what type of distribution it is (tall-er -- tall-est):]** - **contrastive.** 200. **[Say what type of distribution it is (quick-er -- teach-er):]** - **contrastive.** 201. **[Say what type of distribution it is (quick-er -- quick-est):]** - **contrastive** 202. **[Say what type of distribution it is (often-er -- more often):]** - **gradual** 203. **[Say what criterion or criteria a reliable classification of parts of speech should be based on:]** - **semantic, formal, functional** 204. **[Choose the true statement:]** - **a reliable classification should be based on the semantic, formal, functional criteria.** 205. **[Say which one is a notional part of speech (in our traditional classification):]** - **adlinks.** 206. **[Say which one is a notional part of speech (in our traditional classification):]** - **numerals** 207. Say which one is a functional part of speech (in our traditional classification): - **particles.** 208. **[Say which one is a functional part of speech (in our traditional classification):]** - **modal words** 209. **[Find the peripheral (marginal) member of the verbal class (in our traditional classification of parts of speech):]** - **participle.** 210. **[Find the peripheral (marginal) member of the verbal class (in our traditional classification of parts of speech):]** **gerund** 211. **[The classical classification of parts of speech (by Henry Sweet) divides all words in the English language into:]** - **noun-words, adjective words, verbs, and particles.** 212. **[The classical classification of parts of speech (by Henry Sweet) divides all words in the English language into:]** - **four classes (noun-words, adjective words, verbs, and particles)** - 213. **[Say what type of form building it is (translate -- translated):]** - **affixation.** 214. **[Say what type of form building it is (is writing):]** - **analytical type.** 215. **[Say what type of form building it is (am -- is):]** - **suppletivity.** 216. **[Say what type of form building it is (write -- wrote):]** - **sound-interchange.** 217. **[The actual sentence division is also called:]** - **FSP (the functional sentence prospective)** 218. **[Choose a performative speech act:]** - **I thank you.** 219. **[Direct (explicit) speech acts are:]** - **utterances in which the communicative aim is expressed explicitly (directly).** 220. **[Utterances in which the communicative aim is expressed explicitly (directly) are called:]** - **direct (explicit) speech acts** 221. **[Utterances in which the communicative aim is expressed implicitly (indirectly) are called:]** - **indirect (implicit) speech acts** 222. **[Say what part of speech the word "brilliant" (e.g. "brilliant idea") belongs to:]** - **an adjective.** 223. **[The word "throughout" is:]** - **a preposition.** 224. **[Say what part of speech the word "aback" belongs to:]** - **an adlink.** 225. **[Say what part of speech the word "awake" belongs to:]** - **an adlink** 226. **[Say what part of speech the word "undoubtedly" belongs to:]** - **a modal word or an adverb** 227. **[The word "thoughtfully" is:]** - **an adverb** 228. **[Give the synonym to the word "modifier": ]** - **adjunct.** 229. **[Give the synonym to the word "syndetic":]** - **conjunctional** 230. **[Give the synonym to the word "coordinative":]** - **exocentric (non-headed)** 231. **[Give the synonym to the word "subordinate":]** - **conjunctional** 232. **[Choose the example with the word "round" as an adverb:]** - **somewhere round** 233. **[Choose the example with the word "around" as an adverb: ]** - **somewhere around.** 234. **[Choose the quantitative adverb:]** - **entirely.** 235. **[Choose the quantitative adverb:]** - **extremely** 236. **[Choose the derivative adverb: ]** - **dreadfully.** - 237. **[Choose the derivative adverb:]** - **slowly** 238. **[Choose the example with the word "inside" as an adverb: ]** - **She leaped inside as soon as the door was open.** 239. **[Choose the circumstantial adverb:]** - **eastward.** 240. **[Choose the circumstantial adverb:]** - **yesterday** 241. **[Say which one is not a circumstantial adverb:]** - **brightly** 242. **[Choose the example with the word "before" as an adverb:]** - **never before ** 243. **[Choose the example with the word "within" as an adverb:]** - **not to be found within** 244. **[Choose the example with the word "home" as an adverb:]** - **go home** 245. **[The theory of positional cases of the noun says that:]** - **nouns have five cases.** 246. **[The theory of positional cases of the noun says that:]** - **nouns have five cases (nominative, genitive, vocative, dative and accusative)** 247. **[The theory of prepositional cases of the noun says that:]** - **nouns have two cases.** 248. **[The theory of prepositional cases of the noun says that:]** - **nouns have two cases (genitive and dative)** 249. **[The postpositional theory of the noun says that:]** - **nouns have no cases.** 250. **[The postpositional theory of the noun says that:]** - **nouns have no cases** 251. **[The limited case theory of the noun says that:]** - **nouns have two cases.** 252. **[The limited case theory of the noun says that:]** - **nouns have two cases (common and possessive)** 253. **["English" (school subject) is not:]** - **a common noun.** 254. **["Pencil" is:]** - **a common noun.** - 255. **["Shakespeare" is:]** - **a proper noun**  256. **["Friendship" is:]** - **an abstract noun** 257. **[Find the countable noun:]** - **glass (of water).** 258. **[Find the countable noun:]** - **piece** 259. **[Find the noun that can be only plural:]** - **trousers.** 260. **[Find the noun that can be only plural:]** - **scissors** 261. **[Find the noun of neuter gender:]** - **a textbook.** 262. **[Find the noun of neuter gender:]** - **a computer** 263. **[Find the noun morphologically (grammatically) marked for gender:]** - awareness. - **tigress.** 264. **[Find the nouns morphologically (grammatically) marked for gender:]** - **countess** 265. **[Verbals are:]** - **the peripheral element of the verbal class** 266. **[Verbals are:]** - **infinitives, gerunds and participles.** 267. **[Verbals are also called:]** - **non-finite verbs** 268. **[Verbals are not referred to as:]** - **particles.** 269. **[Verbals are:]** - **participles and particles.** 270. **[Pragmatic types of sentences (by J. R. Searle and J. Austin):]** - **constatives, promissives, expressive, menacives, directives, performatives** 271. **[Choose the declarative sentence:]** - **He smokes a lot.** 272. **[Choose the declarative sentence:]** - **He translated the article** 273. **[Choose the imperative sentence:]** - **Translate the article! ** 274. **[Choose the unextended sentence.]** - **I do ** 275. **[Choose the interrogative sentence (the question):]** - **Did he translate the article? ** 276. **[Choose the simple sentences:]** - **She works there** 277. **[The object of the sentence "I made him cry" is:]** - **him cry.** 278. **[The complex object of the sentence "I made him cry" is:]** - **him cry.** 279. **[Find the object(s) of the sentence "Without any doubt, she gave me a wonderful present":]** - **me, present.** 280. **[Find the attribute of the sentence "Without any doubt, she gave me a wonderful present":]** - **wonderful** 281. **[Find the object of the sentence "I saw Mike yesterday":]** - **Mike ** 282. **[Find the complex object in the sentence "I saw Mike leave the office:]** - **Mike leave ** 283. **[A clause is:]** - **a part of a composite sentence ** 284. **[Primary predication is:]** - **the subject-predicate group of the sentence ** 285. **[Principle (primary) parts of the sentence:]** - **the subject and the predicate** 286. **[Secondary predication:]** - **resembles the subject-predicate group of the sentence.** 287. **[Choose the sentence with no secondary predication:]** - **She crossed the road.** 288. **[Choose the example of secondary predication:]** - **his coming.** 289. **[Choose the example of secondary predication:]** - **his arrival** 290. **[Choose the example of secondary predication:]** - **him crossing (e.g., I saw him crossing the road)** 291. **[The nominal part of a compound predicate is referred to as.]** - **predicative.** 292. **[The subjunctive mood is not:]** - **is a fact mood.** 293. **[The subjunctive mood:]** - **is a non-fact mood** 294. **[Say which of the following grammatical categories is not typical of verbs:]** - **degrees of numerical order.** 295. **[Say which of the following grammatical categories is not typical of verbs:]** - **degrees of comparison** 296. **[Find the adjective:]** - **elderly.** 297. **[Find the adjective:]** - **friendly** 298. **[Prove that adjectives have the category of the degrees of comparison:]** - **slow -- slower -- the slowest.** 299. **[Find the non-comparable adjective:]** - **plastic.** 300. **[Find the non-comparable adjective:]** - **wooden** 301. **[Find the comparable adjective:]** - **loud.** 302. **[Find the comparable adjective:]** - **easy** 303. **[Find the relative adjective:]** - **British.** 304. **[Find the relative adjective:]** - **Italian** 305. **[Find the qualitative adjective:]** - **loud.** 306. **[Find the qualitative adjective:]** - **nice** 307. **[Find the substantivized participle:]** - **the aged.** 308. **[Find the substantivized adjective:]** - **the old** 309. **[Find the substantivized adjective:]** - **the poor** 310. **[Prove that adjectives and adlinks are different parts of speech (chose the statement that proves it):]** - **adjectives have the grammatical category of the degrees of comparison while adlinks don't** 311. **[Reciprocal case is about:]** - **pronouns "each other" and "one another".** 312. **[Prove that personal pronouns have the category of case (choose the necessary opposition): ]** - **she -- her.** 313. **[Prove that personal pronouns have the category of case (choose the necessary opposition):]** - **he -- him** 314. **[Say what type of pronouns they are ("hers", "theirs", "ours", "mine"):]** - **possessive.** 315. **[Say what type of pronouns they are ("him", "them", "us", "me"):]** - **personal** 316. **[Find the analytical form:]** - **shall visit.** 317. **[Find the analytical form of the "slowly":]** - **slow** 318. **[Say which one is a transitive verb:]** - **read.** 319. **[Say which one is a transitive verb:]** - **watch** 320. **[Find the opposition establishing the verbal category of order:]** - **came -- had come.** 321. **[Lexical expression of time is:]** - **on the 3^rd^ of November, on Monday, yesterday.** 322. **[Lexical expression of time is:]** - **at 8.20; in 1965; on the 2nd of June** 323. **[The actual division of the sentence is the division of the sentence into:]** - **the theme and the rheme** 324. **["Go away" contains:]** - **only the rheme.** 325. **[Say which line consists of only grammatical suffixes:]** - **-th (e. g., ninth), -er (e. g.., bigger), -ress (e. g., waitress).** 326. **[An example of a derivative word is:]** - **speaker.** 327. **[Say which of these words has an internal inflexion:]** - **wrote.** 328. **[Language units of non-grammar character:]** - **accent.** 329. **[The IC model of the sentence suggests dividing the sentence into:]** - **immediate constituents.** 330. **[An example of a (structurally) simple word is:]** - **translated.** 331. **[Say which of these words has a zero inflexion:]** - **smoke.** 332. **[A semantic generalization of the paradigm is known as:]** - **lexico-grammatical meaning** 333. **Some scientists speak about the so-called reciprocal voice which is expressed:** - **with the help of "each other" and "one another"**

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