INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH STUDIES FINAL TEST January 2018
_____________________ (name and index number)
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS: I
Grammar and Morphology
1, Explain the notion of inflectional paradigm and provide one example of a) verbal and one example of b)adjectival inflectional paradigm. _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ a) ___________________________________________________________________ b) ___________________________________________________________________ 2.What is a periphrastic construction in morphology? Provide one example. _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ Example: _____________________________________________________________ 3. Divide the following words by placing + between their morphemes (some of them may be monomorphemic!) a) despicable __________ b) width __________ c) spinster __________ d) intrusion __________ 4. Provide two examples of words containing class-changing (a, b) and two examples of words containing class-maintaining affixes (c,d): a) __________ c) __________ b) __________ d) __________ 5. Are the following compounds exocentric or endocentric? a. breakfast ___________ c. killjoy _______________ b. green beret ___________ d. doghouse ____________ 6. What do the following acronyms stand for? a. ISBN ______________________________________________________________ b. NUT _____________________________________________________________ c. TESL ______________________________________________________________ d. SALT ___________________________________________________________ II
Syntax
1. Explain and provide one example of substitution as a test to determine syntactic units: ________________________________________________________________ 1
________________________________________________________________ Example: ________________________________________________________ 2. Provide one example with a restrictive relative (a) and one example with a frequency adverbial (b) clause: a. ______________________________________________________________ b. ______________________________________________________________ 3. Provide two different examples of the syntactic function of object complement: a. ________________________________________________________ b. ________________________________________________________ 4. Define the notion of determiner in syntax and provide two examples: _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ Example1 ________________; Example2 __________________________________ 5. Provide one example of a) clausal subject and one example of b) clausal object. Both examples should be full sentences. a) ___________________________________________________________________ b) ___________________________________________________________________ III
Semantics
1. Explain the difference between denotation and connotation in semantics and provide one English example. ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ Example: ______________________________________________________ 2. What is the difference between homophones and homographs? Provide one example of each. _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ Example1_____________________ Example2 _______________________ 3. Specify the semantic relations between the following words: a. buy/bye____________ c. pastry/food ____________ b. interviewer/interviewee ____________ d. altar/alter_____________ 4. Explain the term collocation and provide one English example for it: _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ Example: _____________________________________________________ 5. What is lexical ambiguity? Provide one example in English: _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ Example: _____________________________________________________
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