ENGLISH GRAMMAR PHILOLOGY

Which of the following is an assertive word?. Ever. Much. Still. Any.

Which statement about Theme is true?. It is the point of departure of the clause as a message. It can be either a Topic or a Rheme. It is what the message is about. In contains the New information of the message.

What is interpersonal meaning?. The type of meaning encoded as questions, statements, offers, reminders, thanks, etc. The meaning that has to do with the content of the message. The meaning of an organised message in relation to what precedes it in the discourse. The type of meaning that is implicit in the mutual hierarchical relationshipbetween two or more interlocutors.

What is a supplementive unit?. A subordinate unit that is not embedded. An embedded unit that is not subordinate. A type of subordinate embedded unit. A type of unit that is joined to another one n order to form a compound (coordinate unit).

What is the main unit of syntactic analysis in Systemic Functional Grammar?. The phrase. The clause. The group. The word.

Which of the following statements does NOT correspond to explicit performatives?. The subject pronoun must be I or We. The tense cannot be past. The aspect cannot be perfect. All verbs are potencially performative.

What type of speech act corresponds to the sentence : " How could you be so careless"?. Request. Disbelief. Rebuke ( to scold). Prelude to request.

Which type pf active cosntruction has the Agent mapped on to Subject and Theme / Topic?. active. passive. semi-active. semi-passive.

Why may a unit be made discontinous ( as for example, in " You did it yourself")?. To prevent the units to the left of the verb from being too long and heavy. To create contrast between the discontinous units. For comparison. To avoid awkward emphases.

Which element leads the empathy hierarchy?. The speaker. The hearer. A physical object. An abstract entity.

What phenomenon can you see in the sentence: That call, was it form my mum?. Absolute theme. Right-dislocation. Left-dislocation. Central-dislocation.

Which is the type of progression where something introduced as new information in the Rheme of the first clause in taken up to be the Theme of the second?. Simple linear progression. Continous ( Constant Theme) progression. Derived Theme progression. A progression with split Rheme.

What triggers the auxiliary inversion in the sentence : Never have I seen such a mess in my life!?. Emphatic negation. Affective or emotional language. A thematise negative constituent. The end-weight principle.

Which of the following statements is true?. A catenative verb controls a non-finite complement. The infinitive, the participial and the conditional are non-finite verbal forms. The same verb may have tense and modality. Only modals and primary verbs require a finite verb.

Which of the following tests in NOT used to identify a direct object?. Pronominalisation. Promotion to the subject in a passive structure. Prototyfication. Relative position with respect to the indirect object.

What is " scope of negation"?. The level of non-assertiveness of some words and expressions. The semantic influence that a negative word has on the rest of the clause that follows it. The part of the clause that is syntactically affected by a given non-assertive word. The determiners, pronouns and adverbs with a negative meaning.

Which is a conventional speech act for a declarative clause?. Statement. Directive. Exclamation. Tag question.

What is the unmarked correlation between Given-New and Theme-Rheme. Given coincides with the Theme and New with part of the Rheme. Given coincides with the Rheme and New with part of Theme. Given coincides with New and the Theme with part of the Rheme. Given coincides with part of New and the Theme with the Rheme.

Why are long subject clauses ( like That you are going on holidays to Tokyo" in " That you are going on holidays to Tokio pleases me) usually avoided. Because they violate the end-weight principle. Because they sound infantile. Because they are ungrammatical. Because the Rheme is preferably occupied by the Agent- Subject in statements.

Which of the following segments of discourse provide evidence of Topic continuity?. Where are you? I'm here. Where are you ? Here I'm. Where are you? Here. Where are you? You are there.