Вопросыксобеседованиюнаэкзамене
по теоретической грамматике английского языка
IntroductiontotheTheoryofEnglishGrammar
1. What does Grammar study?
2. How can you arrange grammatical units into a hierarchy?
3. Can you explain the difference between approaches and methods? Name and
characterizeall approachesand methods used in Grammar.
Major Issues of Morphology
1. What is a grammatical category? What categories in English morphology
and syntax do you know?
2. What is the morpheme’s distinguishing feature? Is any morph an
allomorph? What relations exist between allomorphs?
3. How can you classify morphemes?
Parts of speech
1. What groups of words are called parts of speech? Comment on the
criteria you use when describing parts of speech.
2. What is a paradigm? Howis a paradigm connected with grammatical
categories?What categories are considered to be limited?
3. Why is it so important to know the rules of combining words? Why is
combinability important for distinguishing parts of speech?
4. What criteria are taken into account in foreign classifications of words?
5. Can you comment on the differences between notional and functional words?
6. What’s a field structure? Could you illustrate?
7. Characterize nouns as a part of speech using the scheme.
8. Characterize verbs as a part of speech using the scheme.
9. Characterize adjectives as a part of speech using the scheme.
10. Characterize adverbs as a part of speech using the scheme.
11. Characterize particles and interjections as parts of speech.
12. Characterize numerals as a part of speech using the scheme.
13. Characterize pronounsas a part of speech using the scheme.
14. Characterize articles as a part of speech using the scheme.
15. Characterize prepositions as a part of speech using the scheme.
16. Characterize conjunctions as a part of speech using the scheme.
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17. Characterize interjections as a part of speech using the scheme.
English Noun
1. Whatcan you say about the category of number of English nouns? Draw
the opposition and illustrate it with examples.
2. What do we need cases for? Can you draw the opposition in the category
of case and comment on it?
3. Why do most scholars deny that there is gender in English?
4. Which is really a limited category: number or case? And what are the
limitations?
5. How can you oppose English articles? (drawthescheme)
English Verb
1. What does tense as a category express? What’s the difference between so
called absolute and relative tenses? Make sure that you can draw the scheme
of the opposition in the English category of tense.
2. Why do some scholars say there is no aspect in English? What general
meaning does aspect express as a rule? What makes the English aspect
different?
3. Which of the terms (continuous, process, progress, development,
progressive) reflect the nature of the English aspect best? Make sure you can
draw the opposition in the English category of.
4. Russian learners often think that perfect forms in English render
meanings similar to the Russian perfective aspect, don’t they? Why? Are
there any grounds for it?
5. What’s the most general meaning of perfect forms? What should the
opposition of perfect and non-perfect forms look like?
6. What is the general meaning of Voice?
7. What makes people say that there are 5 voices in English: active, passive,
middle, reflexive, reciprocal? How many are there after all?
8. What is there in common between modal verbs and moods? What makes
moods different from other means of expressing modality?
9. What is the general meaning of the category of mood?
English Sentence
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1. What aspects of the sentence should be mentioned in its definition? Can
you say shortly what stands behind each of these aspects?
2. Do we call a sentence ‘a predicative unit’ because we can find a subject
and a predicate in it?
3. What should we take into consideration when we speak about the structure of
the sentence? What’s a predicative centre?
4. What structural types of English sentences do you know?
5. According to what criteria are types of sentences distinguished in a
pragmatic classification?
6. What methodscan we use when we divide a sentence into parts?
7. What’s wrong about the term “actual division”? What means of marking
the rheme do you know?
Text Study inGrammar
1. What grammatical arrangements make a text a grammatical unit?
2. What relations between sentences can we find in a text? What links are
used in English to establish them?
3. What parts can a text be divided into? What criteria can be used?
4. What types of texts do you know? What are the essential differences?
History of Grammar
1. What stages in the history of Grammar can you distinguish and
characrerize?
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