Practical Grammar Examination Questions

(for the external students)

1. Classification of the parts of speech in English. The words of the category of state. The modal words.

2. Noun as a notional part of speech in English. Plural of the nouns in English. Possessive case of the nouns

3. Article as a structural part of speech. Principal functions of the definite and indefinite articles. Use of articles with proper nouns. Use of articles with nouns modified by certain adjectives, pronouns and numerals.

4. Adjective as a notional part of speech. Word order of adjectives. Degrees of comparison of adjectives.

5. Pronoun as a notional part of speech. Classification of the pronouns.

6. Adverb as a notional part of speech. Classification and degrees of comparison of adverbs.

7. Numerals as a notional part of speech. Grammatical characteristics of numerals.

8. Verb as a notional part of speech. Grammatical characteristics of verb. Verbal categories.

9. The formation and use of the Present Simple in the Active Voice.

10. The formation and use of the Present Continuous in the Active Voice.

11. The formation and use of the Present Perfect and the Present Perfect Continuous in the Active Voice.

12. The formation and use of the Past Simple in the Active Voice.

13. The formation and use of the Past Continuous in the Active Voice.

14. The formation and use of the Past Perfect and the Past Perfect Continuous in the Active Voice.

15. Ways of showing future actions in English.

16. Sequence of tenses in English. Indirect Speech.

17. The formation and use of the Passive Voice in English.

18. Non-finite forms of the verb.

19. Predicative constructions with the infinitive.

20. Predicative constructions with the gerund.

21. Predicative and absolute constructions with the participle.

22. Modal verbs (can, could, may, might). Meaning and use.

23. Modal verbs (will, shall, would, need, dare). Meaning and use.

24. Modal verbs (must, should, ought to, to be to, to have to). Meaning and use.

25. Modal verbs with different types of the infinitive.

26. The category of Mood. The Subjunctive Mood in modern English.

27. The Subjunctive Mood in complex sentences.

28. The Subjunctive Mood in simple sentences.

29. Agreement of the predicate with the subject.

30. Conjunctions and connectives.

31. The simple sentence. Types of classification.

32. The simple sentence. The main and the secondary parts of the sentence.

33. Types of elliptical sentence.

34. The communicative types of the sentence.

35. Interrogative sentences. Types of interrogative sentences.

36. The General and pronominal interrogative sentences formation.

37. Interrogative sentence. Tag-question formation.

38. Word order. Common pattern of the sentence in English. Inversion.

39. Independent elements of the sentence.

40. Structural classification of the main parts of the sentence.

41. The Subject. Ways of expressing the Subject.

42. Formal and informal subject “it”.

43. Formal subject “it” and “there”.

44. The Grammatical classification of the subject.

45. The Predicate as the principal part of the sentence. Structural classification of the predicate.

46. The Simple predicate.

47. The Compound predicate.

48. The Predicate and Predicative. Ways of expressing the Predicative.

49. The Link verbs as a compound nominal predicate.

50. The Object as the secondary part of the sentence. Types of Objects.

51. The Attribute as the secondary part of the sentence. The position of attributes.

52. The Adverbial modifier. The semantic characteristics of the adverbial modifiers.

53. Ways of expressing the adverbial modifiers.

54. The Adverbial modifier. Types of adverbial modifiers of time.

55. The Adverbial modifier of cause, purpose and result.

56. The Composite sentence. Structural classification of the composite sentence.

57. The Composite sentence. Nominal clauses.

58. The Composite sentence. Adverbial clauses.

59. The Compound sentence. Types of coordination.

60. The Complex sentence. Attributive clauses.

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