Gramtica Inglesa (Grado en Estudios Ingleses) -1er Cuatrimestre-Febrero 2014 - A

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1.What type of structure is this:
Agent+Process+Recipient+Affected+Circumstance?
a. Interpersonal
b. Textual
c. Experiential
d. Morphosyntactic

2.What type of test is NOT performed on a sentence for constituency
disambiguation in a sentence like The girl saw the man with the telescope?
a. Passivisation
b. Clefting
c. Wh-questions
d. Tense alternation

3. Which of the following statements about clause structure is NOT true?
a. Adjuncts are limited in number in a given clause.
b. The subject encodes the primary participant in the clause.
c. Circumstantial adjuncts are the most integrated adjuncts in the clause.
d. Objects are determined by verb type.

4. What is the usual scope of negation of a negative word?
a. The verb
b. The predicate
c. The rest of the clause after it.
d. The whole clause where it appears.

5. What is the difference between unstressed there (as in Theres plenty of
time) and typical subjects?
a. Its obligatory presence in the clause.
b. Its position in declarative clauses.
c. Its inversion with auxiliaries.
d. Its pronominalisation.

6. Which of the following is a major difference between Od and Oi?
a. Their pronominalisation.
b. Their can be paraphrased by a Prepositional Object.
c. Their promotion to subject in a passive clause.
d. Their realisation by a NG.

7. Which of the following features are common between both Ods and Cos?
a. They have an alternative prepositional paraphrase.
b. They can become subject in a passive clause.
c. They are typically realized by NGs, AdjG, and clauses.
d. They refer to the same participant.

8. What is to see things your way in Its hard to see things your way?
a. An object complement in a ditransitive structure.
b. An adjectival complement and an extraposed subject.
c. A subject complement and an attribute.
d. A nominal relative clause and a non-finite complement.

9. Which statement about existential processes is FALSE?
a. They state the existence of something.
b. They expand the Existent in some way.
c. They are expressed by be or transitive verbs.
d. They can be expressed by verbs of positional states (stand, lie) occurring ,
coming into view or arrival on the scene (appear, emerge).

10. Which of the following sequences has a supplementive unit?
a. Always smiling and kind to others, Mary has passed away last night after a long
illness.
b. It was last month that Tom bought himself a new car.
c. Maybe.
d. Yes, you can.

11. What is NOT a difference between a dynamic and a stative process?
a. You can ask What happened? to the former, not the latter.
b. The former can easily occur in the progressive; the latter cannot.
c. The former usually accepts the imperative; the latter does not.
d. The former typically appears with circumstantial adjuncts; the latter does not.

12. What does the order of elements in semantic structures reflect?
a. Our conceptualization of the event.
b. Syntactic realization.
c. It is a convention based on informational relevance.
d. Pragmatic or textual realization.

13. What is a pseudo-transitive?
a. A clause that expresses the likelihood of a participant to undergo a process.
b. A clause with an implicit direct object.
c. A clause which has undergone valency reduction.
d. A clause with more than one possible transitivity patterns.

14. Which is the Resulting Attribute of the sentence: The boy had a tooth
removed?
a. the boy
b. a tooth removed
c. a tooth
d. removed

15. Which participant occurs most frequently with the Experiencer?
a. Affected
b. Phenomenon
c. Effected
d. Token

16. What is the meaning of the circumstantial element of contingency in spite of
the delay in the sentence: In spite of the delay, we finished on time?
a. behalf
b. condition
c. concession
d. cause

17. What does nominalization? Involve?
a. Encoding actions and states as nouns.
b. Combining grammatical metaphors with lexical metaphors.
c. The overuse of nouns instead of paradigmatic alternatives like pronouns and
nominal clauses.
d. The substitution of proper nouns by appositions and NGs whenever possible.

18. What kind of process is represented in the sentence: I wish you were here?
a. Material
b. Behavioural
c. Mental
d. Relational

19. What can directives be used for (provide the best answer)?
a. Requests.
b. Invitations.
c. Instructions.
d. All of the above.

20. Which of the following sentences contains a marked theme?
a. Well reach Las Vegas in a couple of hours.
b. Lets go for a walk.
c. When will you come back?
d. You stand still!

Gramtica Inglesa (Grado en Estudios Ingleses) -1er Cuatrimestre-Febrero 2014 - B

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El tiempo de duracin del examen es de dos horas.
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1. When can existential there be omitted?
a. Never.
b. When a locative or directional Adjunct is in initial position.
c. With a circumstantial Adjunct and a verb of movement.
d. With the verb to be and a locative attribute.

2. What kind of process is represented by the sentence: I watched the fight
a. Material
b. Behavioural
c. Mental
d. Relational

3. What is an hour in The operation lasted an hour?
a. A circumstantial complement
b. A circumstantial adjunct
c. A circumstantial attribute
d. A circumstantial object

4. What can declarative structures be used for (provide the best answer)?
a. Making a statement.
b. Asking a question.
c. Issuing a directive.
d. All of the above.

5. What type of clause is a question tag?
a. A supplementive clause.
b. An abbreviated or reduced clause.
c. A brief independent finite clause.
d. A direct rhetorical question.

6. What phenomenon can be seen in the sentence: I dont advise you to buy those
shares?
a. Nominalization
b. Grammatical metaphor
c. Transferred negation
d. Fronting or thematisation

7. What general effect is caused by modalisation in declarative directives?
a. It renders them stronger and more formal.
b. It renders them more polite.
c. It renders them more dubitative.
d. It is the speakers choice but it has no semantic consequences.

8. What is the illocutionary force of the sentence Id like to thank all of you for
your support?
a. A rebuke.
b. A simple directive.
c. A biased performative.
d. A hedged performative.

9. Which of the following sentence is NOT thematised?
a. They had a great time in Waterloo last summer.
b. In Waterloo they had a great time last summer.
c. Last summer they had a great time in Waterloo.
d. In Waterloo last summer they had a great time.

10. What phenomenon can you identify in: Is it nice, that jelly?
a. Left-dislocation.
b. Right dislocation.
c. Double detachment.
d. Absolute them.

11. What type of adjunct is according to the weather forecast in According to the
weather forecast, it is going to rain:
a. Circumstantial adjunct
b. Epistemic stance adjunct
c. Evaluative adjunct
d. Evidential adjunct

12. Why is there no overt object in the sentence: He drank and got really heavy?
a. The sentence is incorrect strictly speaking.
b. The object is implied in a clause, which has undergone valency reduction.
c. Because drinking alcoholic drinks is censurable in most cultures.
d. Because it is an intransitive structure.

13. What is peculiar about He explained the problem to us?
a. It is ditransitive verb with no Oi+Od structure.
b. Ditransitive clauses are not common with speech verbs.
c. Us is a beneficiary that takes to instead of for.
d. Both objects can be subjects of passive structures.

14. What is busy in He keeps himself busy all the time?
a. Current attribute
b. A modifier within the direct object
c. Manner adjunct
d. A postmodifier of a NG

15. What is the illocutionary force of a declarative in a direct speech act?
a. A declaration.
b. An utterance.
c. An affirmative/negative sentence.
d. A statement.


16. What does the term explicit performative refer to?
a. The ability of some clause types to carry out certain acts by naming them.
b. The marked presence of the speech act as a subordinate clause.
c. The transfer of the performing term from its logical place to the dependent
clause.
d. The ability of some clauses to point out actions and material processes.

17. Which of the following is NOT a wh-clause complement?
a. Indirect wh-interrogatives
b. Wh-nominal clauses
c. Direct wh-interrogatives
d. Indirect exclamatives

18. When is omission of the complementiser that NOT favoured?
a. With verbs such as say.
b. When there is a noun rather than a pronoun head in the that-clause.
c. When both the main clause and the that-clause share the subject.
d. When the main clause is in the active voice.

19. What is the structure of She had her hair done?
a. S-P-Od-Co
b. S-P-Od
c. S-V-NG
d. S-V-finite participial clause

20. What is the difference between I wrote the note to Susan and I wrote the
note for Susan?
a. In the former, Susan is the addressee, and in the latter, you write it on her
behalf.
b. In the former, Susan receives the note, and in the latter, you are not sure if she
did or not.
c. In the former, the speaker knows for a fact that Susan received and read the
note, and in the latter the speaker is not sure what happened after the note was
written.
d. Both sentences mean the same but the latter is more correct grammatically
speaking.