Câu hỏi ôn tập chương 1: Elements of grammar

1. Discuss the primary distinction between SUBJECT and PREDICATE

2. Clarify the terms OPERATOR, AUXLLIARY, and PREDICATION

3. What are the sentence elements and how are they realized?

4. What are the types of sentence structure?

5. What are the parts of speech? Give examples.

6. What is the difference between the closed – system items and open – class
ones?

7. Give examples of proforms.

8. How can an assertive sentence be made non – assertive?

Lesson 2: Verbs and Verb phrases

For lesson 2: We are discussing chapter 3 of our course book:

Revision questions for chapter 3:

1. How are English verbs classified?

2. What are the verb forms and how are they used

3. What are the “marginal modal auxiliaries” and why are they so called?

4. What is the relationship between tense and aspect?

5. Is it true that English has only two tenses: past and present?

6. How is the future expressed in English?

7. Discuss the distinction between dynamic and stative verbs.

8. What is the difference between “I will help her” and “I will be helping her”

9. What is the difference between” I think it’ll rain tonight” and “it is going
to rain tonight”

10. State the uses of the modal auxiliaries.

11. What is the difference between “He will do it, whatever you say” and “he shall
do it, what ever you say”?

12. State the use of the perfect progressive in “He has been eating my
chocolates”.

13. Explain the TIMELESS use of the present tense.

14. What is meant in “He is always ringing me up when I am in the bathroom”?

Lesson 3: The verb and its complementation

1.Revision questions for lesson 3: The verb and its complementation
1. What are the different types of multi – word verbs? Give examples.

2. What are the differences between a phrasal verbs and a prepositional verb?

3. Some multi-word verbs consist of a verb followed by two particles: to put up

with. Can you find more verbs like that?

4. A sentence like “He looked at the girl” can be analyzed in two different
ways. What are they?

5. Discuss the complementation of intensive verbs.

6. What are the transitive verbs that do not allow a passive transformation?

7. What is the difference between “Bob is slow to react” and “Bob is hard to
convince”

8. What are the three classes of verbs in the main clause that involve a finite
clause as direct object? Give examples

9. What is the difference between “I remembered to fill out the form” and “I
remembered filling out the form”

10. Discuss the complementation of ditransitive verbs.

11. Discuss the complementation of complex transitive verbs.

12. What is the difference in structure between “he wanted Mary to teach Bob” and
“He persuaded Mary to teach Bob”?

13. How can you transform the following sentences into the passive? We reminded
him of the agreement and “They had made good use of the house”

Lesson 4: Nouns and the basic noun phrases

Questions for review:

1. Discuss noun classes

2. What is the basis for classifying determiners?

3. Name the 6 groups of determiners

4. What is the difference between “A child needs love” and “There is a child
waiting outside”?

5. Explain the use of the article in “He likes the music of France”

6. Discuss the relationship between reference and the article

7. Explain the use of the zero article in “They elected him” “President of the
United States”

8. Discuss the number classes in English

9. Clarity the double genitive in English

10. What are the components of a basic noun phrase?

Lesson 5: The Complex Noun phrase
Questions for review:

1. What are the components of a complex noun phrase?

2. What is the main difference between the basic noun phrase and a complex noun
phrase?

3. What is the difference between restrictive and non – restrictive modification?

4. Discuss the difference in modification between “A timid man” and “ A man who is
afraid” “an afraid man”

5. Discuss explicitness in the post modification

The man who is talking to Jane…

The man talking to Jane…

6. What is the difference between restrictive and non – restrictive relative

clauses?

7. Discuss multiple modification.

8. What is the relative sequence of premodifiers?

Lesson 6: Adjectives and Adverbs

1. What are adjectives, adjective phrases?

2. What are the functions of adjectives?

3. What are different categories of adjectives?

4. What are participle adjectives and how are they used?

5. What are adverbs?

6. What are the functions of adverbs?

7. What are different categories of adverbs?

8. Comparison in English

Lesson 7: The Simple Sentence

Questions for Review:

What are the clause elements and how are they realised?
What are the clause pattern?
In what way are clause elements obligatory to the clause structure?
How are the seven clause types distinguished from one another?
What are the syntactic features of clause elements?
What are the semantic roles of each of the clause elements?
What is the difference in terms of semantic role between the underlined words in: "
I looked into her big round eyes but I saw nothing special in there"
What is the semantic role of the underlined word? "He is having a bath."
What is concord? How many types of concords are there?
Discuss NOTIONAL concord.
Explain the use of the underlined verbs in "Either your eyesight or your brakes
were at fault" and " Either your brakes or your eyesight was at fault."
What are the two functions of a vocative in English?
How can an assertive sentence be made non - assertive?
What is the relationship between the scope and the focus of negation?
What is negated in the following sentence? The main verb or the auxiliary verb?
"You may not smoke in here" and "She may not come if it rains again this
afternoon."
The sentence "I don't love you because you are rich" can be open to more than one
interpretation. What are they?
How are simple sentences classified according to their communicative?
What are the three types of questions according to the kinds of answers they
expect?
What is the difference between: "Has anyone called me? " and "Has someone called
me?"
Discuss Yes/ No questions with negative orientation?
What are the different types of tag questions?
Discuss the use of tones in alternative questions?
What are exclamatory and rhetorical questions? Give examples.
What is meant by asking "Your car is outside, is it?"