Gramática inglesa Uned

What type of concept is "state of affairs" (= the speaker's conceptualization of reality)?. Situational. Extralinguistic. Strictly linguistic. Semantic.

Which of the following statements about meanings (=interpretations of clause structure) is NOT true?. Representational meaning has to do with the content of the message. The representational meaning of the clause is encoded through the transitivity structures. The roles adopted as speakers to exchange information, get things done, etc. are those of "questioner" and "informant". The rheme is the point of departure for the message, which in English coincides with the initial elements(s) of the clause.

Which of the following is NOT a semantic role (=a component of a state of affairs)?. Attribute. Circumstance. Participant. Explanation.

Which of the following statements is NOT true?. A process is an action, event, state or type of behavior. A circumstance is a type of semantic function. An attribute is a quality or characteristic of a participant. A participant is an animate entity involved in a process.

What is the theme of a message?. Its point of departure. The new information it provides. The initial word of the sentence. An experiential function.

Which is the finite operator in the sentence: "I might give you A+ for your test"?. I. Might. Give. You.

Which of the following statements is NOT necessarily true?. A clause consists of one or more groups. A group consists of one or more phrases. A group consists of one or more words. A word consists of one or more morphemes.

What is "You" in "You were bought a lot of drinks last night"?. Attribute. Circumstance. Recipient. Beneficiary.

What is necessary in English to ask a question and negate a clause?. A predicate. A finite operator. A process. An action.

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

Which of the following transitive verbs don't passivize?. Some common verbs which take atypical direct objects. All transitive verbs passivize. Some common verbs with clausal direct objects. Transitive verbs never passivize.

What role does "there" have in an existential process?. Agent. A participant with no semantic content. Existent. An empty subject.

Which semantic functions correspond to indirect objects?. Agents and Experiences. Recipients and Beneficiaries. Circumstances. Direct objects and prepositional objects.

How are classes classify according to polarity?. Declarative, Interrogative, Exclamative and Directive. Affirmative and Negative. Interrogative yes/no and interrogative wh-. Positive and Denial.

Having the Direct Object as Theme in a declarative clause is: An unmarked choice. A marked choice. A topical choice. Incorrect.

What are information units?. The equivalents of speech units. The "chunks" or segments into which messages are divided in order to be understood. The focus of information of a clause. The distribution of information into Given and New.

What does thematization involve?. Taking an element to the end of the sentence. Altering the syntactic function of the main participants. Modifying the information pattern of the clause. Bringing an element to initial position.

What type of relationship is apposition?. A relationship close of coordination but without a specific link. A semantic relationship of interdependency with overt markers. A syntactic relationship of equivalence between non-equivalent clauses. A relationship whereby one clause provides circumstantial information about another one.

Which of the following is NOT a level of Topic?. Text level. Paragraph level. Sentence level. Group level.

Which of the following sentences does NOT contain a locative/goal complement?. She talked me into going with them. Keep your elbows off the table. Hold your head up. He wrote his memories once and for all.

What is a catenative verb?. A verb that concatenates two clausal constituents. A verb that controls a non-finite complement. A verb that controls a finite complement. A verb that forms part of a verbal periphrasis.

What does the term "enhancing" refer to?. A way of expanding a message by augmenting the content with a positive intention. A way of expanding the meaning of the main clause by providing some circumstantial feature. A combination of coordination and circumstantial meaning. A way of providing discourse context by expressing meanings of simultaneity, sequentiality, condition, cause-effect, result and concession.

What is the difference between proper nouns and proper names?. Proper nouns are impersonal and proper names are personal. Proper nouns are arbitrary nouns with no definable meaning and proper names potentially have a more complex structure. They are synonyms. Proper nouns refer to one single element within a group and proper names are descriptive labels which necessarily include one or more proper nouns.

What is NOT a function of personal pronouns?. Setting up identity chains by means of anaphora. Contributing to referential coherence. Contributing to textual cohesion. Maintaining the topic pattern of the discourse.

Which of the following is NOT an experiential type of determination by which referent things can be particularized in English?. Defining and particularizing. Quantifying and distributing. Semi-determinatives. Pre- and post- modifiers.