You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 – 1962)
GRAMMAR
1. Despite the fact that there was very little rain, the vegetables appeared healthy and marketable.
2. In a corporation whose stock is private owned, the board of directors is elected by the stockholders.
3. The host suggested that, although it is getting late, everyone remain for another cup of tea.
4. Mrs. Block is one of the women who, I believe, is running for office in this district.
5. There were no sign of wild animals when Robinson Crusoe, who alone was alive after the ship had sunk, had reached the island.
VOVABULARY
6. She chose some very beautiful …… paper for the present.
a. covering b. involving c. packing d. wrapping
7. He asked me what was … in the street outside.
a. succeeding b. making out c. doing up d. going on
8. We're going to have our house …. The decorators are coming next week.
a. done up b. done in c. made over d. made away with
9. She died after a long ….
a. sickness b. disease c. failing d. illness
10. He is not as honest as he…..
a. makes up b. make out c. gives over gives away
Linguistics
11. Accent, tone, intonation and quantity are considered as ……
a. paradigmatic contrast b. inherent features
c. prosodemic functions d. prosodic traits
12. As the phoneme is a distinctive sound-class of allophones, so the…..is a form-class of allomorphs.
a. lexicon b. morphon c. morpheme d. phone
13. The participant role played by the word "Joe" in the sentence "Robert gave Joe his pen." Is …..
a. affected b. beneficiary c. direct object c. indirect object
14. Which of the following sentences are NOT generated by the following rules?
1. S→ NP VP 2.VP→V(NP)(PP)
a. Mahdi wrote a letter to his father.
b. My brother cries.
c. My sister is clever.
d. Your father bought a present.
15. Which one of the following is a commisive act?
a. forbidding b. insulting c. requesting d. undertaking
ANSWERS
1. WAS should be replaced with HAD BEEN
2. PRIVATE should be replaced with PRIVATELY
3. IS GETTING should be replaced with WAS GETTING
4. IS RUNNING should be replaced with ARE RUNNING
5. WERE should be replaced with WAS
6.d 7.d 8.a 9.d 10.b 11. d 12.c 13.b 14.c 15.d
You may like to know about:
Language and change, language and brain, first language acquisition, language society and culture, syntax, discourse, sign, phonology, morphology, lexicon.
Try to have through look in the study of language by George Yule. If you want to be more accurate study Essential Introductory Linguistics by Grover
You may also be interested in theories of translation such as those explained by Peter Newmark in his " A Textbook Of Translation" and "Approaches To Translation". Jeremy Munday's "Introducing Translation Studies" is highly offered to those who are interested to gain a dominant view of theories of translation in their approach to entrance exam for MA of English Translation.
You learn by living.