‫بسم هللا الرحمن الرحيم‬
Philadelphia University
Faculty of Arts
Department of English
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Examination Sheet
PART 1 :
A : Information
Student's Name:
Semester: 1st
Tutor's Name: Dr. Khalil Nofal
Time: 8:15 - 9:30
Examination:
1st
Student's No. :
Academic year : 2009/2010
Module Title : Syntax &
Morphology
Date: 7 / 4 / 2010
2nd
Module No:0120332
Day: Wednesday
Final
B -Guidelines
-The exam consists of four categories and the total mark is (15).
- Each question has its own mark.
-The answer must be written clearly.
C. Exam Questions, Grades and Time Allocated for Each Question:
Question
Minutes
Total point
1.
10
4
2.
15
6
3.
15
10
4.
20
10
60
30 /2=
Total
Points Earned
D- Student Comments on the Questions ( If any )
E- Tutor's Remarks:
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PART II : Questions
FIRST Category :Knowledge and Understanding
The aim of these questions is to asses the basic knowledge and skills the student acquired.
Question (1): Define the following with illustrative examples (4 pts)
1. Rank scale & Rank shift
2. Structural ambiguity & Lexical ambiguity
3. Diachronic and Synchronic Description
4. Attributive & Predicative Adjectives
2
Intellectual Skills
Second Category : (Cognitive and Analytical)
The aim of these questions is to asses the students ability to recognize and analyze information.
Question ( 1 ):Give complete sentences to illustrate the following: (6 points)
1. Complex transitive verb__________________________________________________________
2. Non-transitive PC_______________________________________________________________
3. Phrasal verb.___________________________________________________________________
4. Complex sentence with finite clause functioning as an immediate constituent of the matrix
sentence.
_____________________________________________________________________________
5. Cardinal numbers functioning as an immediate constituent of NP.
____________________________________________________________________________
6. Demonstrative pronoun functioning as an immediate constituent of a sentence.
____________________________________________________________________________
7. Relative clause functioning as an immediate constituent of an NP.
____________________________________________________________________________
8. Interrogative pronoun functioning as an immediate constituent of the sentence.
____________________________________________________________________________
9. "So" as a proform for a ' that clause'
_____________________________________________________________________________
10. A quantifier functioning as determiner.
___________________________________________________
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THIRD Category :Practical Skills
Students should be able to apply their knowledge in solving unfamiliar problems.
Question (1): complete the following sentences (10 points)
1. -"ity' in the word "nationality" is a __________ morpheme.
2. -er can be derivational e.g ________________ or inflectional e.g_________________.
3.
-ize is a ____________ marker as in __________________.
4. Our teacher does come early. The underlined word is an auxiliary of _______________.
5. The plural of "cactus" is ______________ or _________________.
6. "Mutation" means _______________________________________.
7. "Payee" is a/an _______________________________________.
a. verb
b. noun
c. adjective
d. adverb
8. The morpheme -(e)s in the word "churches" is pronounced as:
a. /s/
b./z/
c. /iz/
d.None of the above
9. The different phonetic realizations of the morpheme is called__________________.
a. allophones
b.syllables
c.suffixes
d.allomorphs
10. The verb that is followed by Do & OA is called__________________.
a. monotransitive
b. ditransitive
c. complex transitive
d. transitive PC
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FOURTH Category: Transferable Skills
Students should be able to apply their knowledge in solving unfamiliar problems.
Question (1): Analyse the underlined words /phrases/ clauses in terms of categories and functions(10
points)
1. The book belongs to Jane.
Category:
Function:
2. Forty is an interesting age.
Category:
Function:
3. Whose books are these?
Category:
Function:
4. My son, who lives in London, is an engineer.
Category:
Function:
5. George is glad to see us.
Category:
Function:
(1)
(2)
6. The police gave whoever came in a penetrating look.
1.Category:
Function:
2.Category:
Function:
(1)
(2)
7. My father bought me a new house.
1.Category:
2.Category:
Function:
Function:
8. Ali resembles his mother.
Category:
Function:
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