Тест: Theoretical Grammar: Communicative sentence types


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1. There is no such a communicative type as

1) all the communivative types exist
2) an exclamatory sentence
3) an imperative sentence
4) an interrogative sentence
5) a declarative sentence

2. On the upper level interrogative sentences are devided into

1) special and general
2) pronominal and special
3) interestinag and uninteresting
4) pronominal and non-pronominal

3. What type of question is not included into non-pronominal questions:

1) alternative question
2) disjunctive question
3) general question
4) special question

4. A general question opens with

1) a verb operator
2) a question word
3) a link verb
4) an auxiliary verb

5. A confirmative question is another word for

1) there is no such a type of question
2) a tag question
3) an alternative question
4) a special question
5) a general question

6. The type of question "Which do you prefer, chocolate or vanilla ice-cream" is a crossbreed between

1) proniminal and disjunctive
2) pronominal and alternative
3) pronominal and special
4) pronominal and general

7. The question "So you heard the news yesterday?" mut be termed as

1) it is not a question, but a declarative sentence
2) elliptical
3) suggestive
4) general

8. The function of a question word in the pronominal question "What makes you think so?" - "Your words" is

1) an object
2) a predicative
3) a predicate
4) a subject

9. The function of a question word in the pronominal question "What are they?" - "They are painters"

1) an object
2) a predicative
3) a predicate
4) a subject

10. The function of a question word in the pronominal question "What do you want to buy?" - "A book"

1) an object
2) a predicative
3) a predicate
4) a subject

11. Which of the sentences can't be either exclamatory or non-exclamatory

1) disjunctive
2) pronominal
3) special
4) general

12. Complete the disjunctive question with the appropriate tag: "Nobody knows it,..."

1) don't they?
2) do they?
3) doesn't he?
4) does he?

13. Complete the disjunctive question with the appropriate tag: "Little is known about this phenomenon,..."

1) don't they?
2) do they?
3) isn't it?
4) is it?

14. Imprative sentences express

1) emotions
2) an inducement
3) a request for information
4) a statement

15. Choose the right statement about Imperative sentences: Imperative sentences

1) are always complete, i.e. contain both subject and predicate
2) may have or may not a have a word form in the place of a subject
3) are always elliptical sentences, i.e. donot contain a word form in the position of a predicate
4) are always elliptical sentences, i.e. donot contain a word form in the position of a subject

16. In the imperative sentence sentence: "Mary and John fetch the dictionaries" Mary and John are:

1) complement
2) independent elements
3) addressing enclosure
4) subject

17. The phrase like "For God's sake" is

1) a declarative sentence
2) a one-member sentence
3) a purely exclamatory sentence (non communicative utterance)
4) an exclamatory sentence

18. The sentence "I wonder why he is so late" is intermidiary between

1) it is not an intermidiary construction, but a declarative sentence
2) declarative and exclamatory
3) declarative and interrogative
4) declarative and imperative

19. The sentence "Please tell me what I can do" is intermidiary between

1) it is not an intermidiary construction, but an imperative sentence type
2) imperative and exclamatory
3) imperative and interrogative
4) imperative and declarative

20. In a complex sentence the communicative type depends upon that of

1) complex sentences do not belong to any of the communicative types
2) the whole centence in general
3) the main clause
4) the subordinate clause