TESTS 1. What grammatical categories are there in nouns? a) person; c) number;
b) tense; d) case;
2. What type of category is expressed by means of grammatical inflections? a) analytical; c) mixed type;
b) synthetical; d) none of them;
3. The personal pronouns “us” and “them” are in objective case forms/How are they formed? They are formed by means of ……….. a) inflection and suppletion;
b) suppletion and inflection;
c) both of them by suppletion;
d) both of them by means of grammatical inflections;
4. What is the difference between primary and secondary predications? a) in the primary predication the meanings of tense, person and mood are expressed absolutely while in secondary they are not;
b) in the secondary predication the meanings of tense, person and mood are expressed absolutely while in the primary predication are not;
c) the mentioned grammatical meanings are expressed absolutely in both types of predications;
5. Language is common, general for all the bearers/speakers while speech is individual. a) True; b) False;
6. By the help of which grammatical means do we express the past tense of the verb “have”? a) root vowel change;
b) final consonant change;
c) suppletion;
d) both root vowel and final consonant change;
7. What is the difference between genetic and morphological classification of language? a) the genetic classification deals with the relatedness of language while morphological one deals with the grammatical structure of languages;
b) the genetic classification deals with the grammatical structure while morphological one deals with relatedness of languages;
c) there is no difference between them;
8. Which of the following groups of words are used to connect words in sentences? a) notional verbs; c) conjunctions;
b) adverbs; d) interjections;
