FINAL TEST FINAL TEST Time allowance 60 minutes The test has 50 questions Please write your answers in your answer sheet Name Group Total score Score Questions 1 5 Decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F) 1 Theoretically, the number of words in a noun phrase is not limited 2 Tense is a universal, non linguistic concept with three divisions past, present and future 3 Conjuncts are connective, therefore, they are integrated in clause structure 4 A non finite clause acting.
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Group:
Total score: Score:
Questions 1-5 Decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F)
1 Theoretically, the number of words in a noun phrase is not limited
2 Tense is a universal, non-linguistic concept with three divisions: past, present and future
3 Conjuncts are connective, therefore, they are integrated in clause structure
4 A non-finite clause acting as post modification is in fact a reduced form of a relative clause
5 Clauses beginning with a coordinator or a conjunct can be moved in front of the preceding clause without producing unacceptable sentences or changing the relationship of the clauses
Questions 6-10 Fill in each blank with NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS.
6 One kind of embedding that occurs when one clause is made of a constituent of another clause is described as
7 refers to the function of a part of a phrase or clause which follows a word, and completes the specification of a meaning relationship which that word implies E.g.: a, We considered him our leader, or b, All sales are subject
to tax
8 The kind of reference (i.e linguistics or situational) a particular noun phrase has
is typically realized by a set of closed-class items, or , which
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9 A simple positive sentence is negated by inserting the clause negator ‘not’ between the operator and the
10 The sentence “Either the strikers or the boss misunderstood the claim.” shows that the concord is applied to this case
Questions 11-20:
The New Year is the day that marks the beginning of a new calendar year, and the
year count increment of a specific calendar (a) The New Year of the Gregorian
calendar, today in worldwide use, falls on 1 January (b) With the expansion of Western culture to the rest of the world during the twentieth century, the 1 January date became global, even in countries with their own New Year celebrations on other days (e.g., China and India) (c) Many people even consider 1 January a
national holiday (d).
Many cities across the world celebrate the New Year (e) The celebrations usually include a firework's display, and other festivities (f) London, for example,
organizes a major fireworks display along the River Thames, followed by a parade
on New Year's Day (g)
(Adapted from Wikipedia)
For questions 11-16, read the article and identify the clause type of each sentence in the article Write your answers in the numbered blanks in the answer sheet The first sentence has been done for you as an example.
Example: Sentence (a) SVC
11 Sentence b
…………
13 Sentence d
…………
15 Sentence f
…………
12 Sentence c
…………
14 Sentence e
…………
16 Sentence g
…………
For questions 17-20: Read the article again and state the semantic role of the following sentence elements Write your answers in the numbered blanks in
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19 The celebrations (sentence f) _
20 a major fireworks display (sentence g) _
Questions 21-24: State these following sentences are Simple (S), Complex
(CX), Compound
(CP), or Complex Compound (CC).
21 Angry bloggers and tweeters complained that they had been late for work, and were risking missing planes and trains due to iPhone’s malfunctioned built-in alarm clock
22 “Dr Livingstone, I presume?” – these famous words have immortalized the iconic meeting between the young ambitious journalist Henry Stanley and the great Irish explorer David Livingstone – probably the first global celebrity ever
23 Although Johnson was one of the richest people in the world, she counted
every cent
and spent as little as possible
24 A successful telecommuting program requires a management style which is
based on
results and not on close scrutiny of individual employees.
21
………
22
………
23
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24
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Questions 25-26 Negate the following sentence Then interpret it in two ways
by indicating the scope and focus of negation.
“He came into the room because of the lion.”
………
Interpretations:
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26.……… …
………
Questions 27 - 31 Read the text below, and then write in each corresponding
blank in the
answer sheet the reference type expressed by each noun phrase: Generic (G),
Specific (S),
Unique (U) Question ZERO has been done for you as an example.
Example:(0) G
The chemistry of 0the world's oceans is changing at (27) a rate not seen for 65 million years, with far-reaching implications for (28) marine biodiversity and food security, according to 29 a new United Nations study released Thursday "(30) Environmental Consequences of Ocean Acidification," published by the U.N Environmental Program UNEP)," warns that (31) some sea organisms including
coral and shellfish will find it increasingly difficult to survive, as acidification shrinks the minerals needed to form their skeletons (Adapted from www.cnn.com)
Questions 32-33 State whether the underlined is Restrictive (R) or Nonrestrictive (N).
32 It was a bleak period of present privation and threatening disaster - the period
of soya beans and Basic English.
33 My friend Alice is the most honest people you could ever see in this country.
Questions 34-40 Identify whether the underlined are Adjunct (A), Conjunct (C), Style Disjunct (SD), or Attitudinal Disjunct (AD).
34 Obviously, she is not the smartest in the class.
35 You can tell from their line that they are totally exhausted, however.
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incident
37 Could you please tell me what is that thing you’ve saved me from?
38 This will certainly lead to assumptions that he was the one behind all this
mess
39 I have almost completely forgotten the incident.
40 Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions
is a disease in them
Questions 41-42: Identify whether the underlined is Segregatory (S) or Combinatory (C) coordination
41 Margaret and I won the best performance in the Pair Skater Championship
42 She wore a black and white jacket.
Questions 43-45: Underline the focus of the following sentences 43 You may not go home early tonight (You are allowed to stay out late.) 44 All cats don’t like water (Some do) 45 I didn’t leave home because I was afraid of my father (I was afraid of my mother.) Questions 46-47: Interpret this ambiguous sentence in TWO different ways. “Please, ask Mr Jack to take Mr Tom around the city on Monday, Ms Janie on Friday.” 46………
………
47………
………
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48 a wide and small man stout shifty frog-mouth a with eyes
49 shock a little gasp of shrill
Question 50: The ellipsis in the sentence below is faulty Rewrite it correctly.
An example has been done for you.
Example:
Tonight’s stories show that children are still exposed to poverty, malnutrition, poor education and healthcare
Tonight’s stories show that children are still exposed to poverty, malnutrition, poor education and poor healthcare/ and poor education and healthcare
While one does not exclude the possibility a given speaker may choose to speak in
a national standard at one moment and in a regional dialect the next – and possibly even switch from one national standard to another – the presumption has been that
an individual adopts one of the varieties so far discussed as his permanent form of English
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6 subordination 7 complementation 8 determiners 9 predication
10 proximity
17 Resulting Attribute
18 Agentive Subject
19 Eventive Subject
20 Effected Object
Negated sentence: He didn't come into the room because of the lion.
Interpretations:
25 Because there was a lion, he didn't dare to come into the room.
26 He came into the room not because of the lion but because of another reason
40 AD
43 early 44 All 45 father
46 Please, ask Mr Jack to take Mr Tom around the city on Monday, and ask Ms Janie to take Mr Tom around the city on Friday
47 Please, ask Mr Jack to take Mr Tom around the city on Monday, and ask Mr Jack to take Ms Janie around the city on Friday
48 a stout and small man with a wide frog-mouth and shifty eyes
49 a little shrill gasp of shock
50 While one does not exclude the possibility THAT a given speaker may choose
to speak in a national standard at one moment and in a regional dialect the next –
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Questions 1-5 Decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F)
1 Inflectional morphemes are randomly distributed and only occur with some members
of a word class
2 Closed system comprises a limited number of members
3 The word “option” is formed by adding the suffix “ion” to the base “opt.”
4 All transitive verbs allow a passive transformation of the sentence.
5 In most cases, adverbials are optional in clause structure, except when they stand after
an intransitive verb or complex transitive verb.
Questions 6-8 Fill in each blank with NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS.
6 “Break it on, get away with, look up to” are called verbs.
7 is the manner in which a verbal action is experienced or regarded with respect to time.
8 and aspect are intermingled We cannot speak about one without mentioning the other.
9 Unlike Russian or French, English does not have any morphological feature that helps distinguish .
10 The sentence “The audience are raising their hands to signify their approval now.”
shows that the notional is applied to this case
Questions 11-23 Read the passage and then do the tasks that follow.
(a) Like brainstorming, freewriting is done nonstop (b) It occurs intensely for a short period of time (c) We do freewriting without worrying about audience (d) Although
freewriting will produce much that is unusable, it can also produce much that will be
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enormous amounts of valuable information (e) We can get some use out of this
information, and (f) it may very well give us a focus for the rest of our work on the subject (g) Sometimes when we find an approach to a subject through brainstorming,
freewriting unlocks a wealth of ideas to pursue
A Identify the clause patterns of the following sentences by writing: SVC, SV, SVO, etc.
11 Sentence a:
12 Sentence b:
13 Sentence c:
14 Sentence d:
15 Sentence e:
16 Sentence f:
17 Sentence g:
B Identify the semantic roles of the underlined words in the reading passage.
18 It:
19 freewriting:
20 our subconscious minds:
21 us:
22 we:
23 an approach:
Questions 24-28 Read the text below, and then write in each corresponding blank
in the answer sheet the reference type expressed by each noun phrase: Generic (G), Specific (S), Unique (U) Question ZERO has been done for you as an example.
Example:(0) S (Specific reference)
Some cultures (0) have clashed with less powerful neighbours (24) only to find that
over time their culture became heavily influenced by these subordinates (25), like the
Romans (26) by the Greeks (27) In this way, the original meaning (28) of an aspect of
cultural behavior may be lost in history and may originally have been part of a belief
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Questions 29-33 State these following sentences are Simple (S), Complex (CX), Compound (CP), or Complex Compound (CC).
29 Open word classes which consist of nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs allow new members but closed word classes like prepositions, conjunctions and determiners seldom do.
30 In English, words in one class can sometimes be derived from those in another and new words be created.
31 A verb is said to be regular if its base form does not change when inflections are added to create new forms.
32 An adjective phrase can consist of an adjective followed by a complement, usually a prepositional phrase, or by a "that" clause.
33 In English, when both clauses of the sentence are offered as new information, they are usually equal syntactically and semantically
Questions 34-35 Negate the following sentence Then interpret it in two ways by indicating the scope and focus of negation.
“I find one present useful.”
……….
Interpretations:
34………
…35.……… ….
………
Questions 36-37 State whether the underlined is Restrictive (R) or Nonrestrictive (N).
36 All the tickets for the 3-D movie Avartar were sold out a month ago.
37 He has an idea that the earth is warming.
Questions 38-42 Identify whether the underlined are Adjunct (A), Conjunct (C), Style Disjunct (SD), or Attitudinal Disjunct (AD).
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39 No one seriously questions the need for language students to develop a good control
of grammar.
40 Seriously , sometimes you have to put grammar aside
41 Fortunately, grammar- and spell-checkers can help you enormously in your writing.
42 Adverbs, on the other hand, usually modify verbs.
Questions 43 Put all the items given to make a grammatically meaningful complex noun phrase.
good neglected several old the square houses two first stone red houses or plantation of Jamaican big
………
…
Questions 44-45 Identify whether the underlined is a Combinatory (C) or Segregatory (S) coordination?
44 Jim and Carter met for lunch.
45 Jim and Carter are a pair of crooks.
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1 F 2 T 3 F 4 F 5.F
19 freewriting: Od effected 22 we: S agentive
20 our subconscious minds: S recipient 23 an approach: Od affected
Negated sentence: I do not find one present useful
34 I find none of the presents useful.
35 I find all presents useful, except one
43 Several of the first two good big old square red neglected Jamaican stone houses or plantation houses
44 C 45 C
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Questions 1-5: Decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F)
1 Basically, a lexical item and its meaning have no arbitrary relationship.
2 The order of morphemes in a word is that a derivational morpheme is closer to the root than
an inflectional one.
3 Broadly speaking, nouns and adjectives can be characterized as stative in the sense that they
refer to entities or characteristics which are regarded as ‘stable’
4 Ellipsis is the omission of elements which are precisely recoverable only from the linguistic, but not from situational context.
5 In the sentence “The capital outlay may not be justified by the area which may be expected to benefit by the improvement.”, the relative clause provides unimportantly descriptive and
elaborating characteristics of the area
Questions 6-12: Fill in each blank with just ONE suitable word.
a Subordination is a non-symetrical relations, holding between two clauses in such a way that one is a (6)………of the other.
b Adjunct is, to some extent, integrated in the clause structure whereas disjunct and conjunct (7)………
d A special feature of primary auxiliaries is that they can function as both (8)………and (9)………verbs.
e Clausal (10)………is used to deny or reject proposition.
f Of all the sentence elements, only (11)………and (12)………appear once in each sentence/clause.
Questions 13-17: Read the text below, and then write in each corresponding blank in the answer sheet the reference type expressed by each noun phrase: Generic (G), Specific (S),