The … does not always correspond with the grammatical subject of the sentence

happiness was ours that day, what joy, what rest, what hope, gratitude.

a) homonyms b) synonyms c) homophones d) antonyms

11. 
    The children will carry the small boxes, the adults the large ones.
    

a) echoing verbal ellipsis b) nominal ellipsis
c) auxiliary contrasting verbal ellipsis d) clausal ellipsis

12. 
    English has broadly three types of ellipsis: …..
    

a) nominal, echoing verbal and auxiliary contrasting verbal
b) nominal, verbal and clausal
c) nominal, clausal and echoing verbal
d) clausal, echoing verbal and auxiliary contrasting verbal

13. 
    I offered him a seat. He said he didn't want one.
    

a) auxiliary contrasting verbal substitution
b) echoing verbal substitution
c) nominal substitution
d) clausal substitution

14. 
    Did Mary take that letter? She might have done.
    

a) clausal substitution b) nominal substitution
c) echoing verbal substitution d) auxiliary contrasting verbal substitution

15. 
    ….. means either restating an item in a later part of the discourse by direct repetition or else reasserting its meaning by exploiting lexical relations.
    

a) rheme b) theme c) collocation d) reiteration

16. 
    What is discourse? Explain the difference between spoken and written discourse. (2 points)
    

17. 
    Write the types of conjunctions and give examples. (2 points)
    

18. 
    What is ellipsis and substitution? Give examples. (2 points)
    

19. 
    Discuss the types of discourse. (2 points)
    

20. 
    Discuss the theme and rheme. Give examples. (2 points)
    

21. 
    What do you understand about tense and aspect. Give examples.
    

22. 
    Discuss the definition of reference and support your ideas with examples.
    

23. 
    What is substitution? Give examples.
    

24. 
    Write your understanding about lexical creativity and give examples.
    

25. 
    What is deixis? Give examples for each type of deixis.