Practical_Grammar_Examination_Questions

Practical Grammar of the English Language

Second Year

Examination Questions

1. Compare the meanings of the Present Indefinite and the Present Continuous.

2. Compare the meanings of the Present Continuous and the Past Continuous.

3. The use of the Past Indefinite and the Past Continuous.

4. Compare the meanings of the Past Indefinite and the Past Perfect.

5. The Present Perfect and the Present Perfect Continuous.

6. Speak on different means of expressing future actions.

7. Speak on different means of expressing past actions.

8. Speak about the Sequence of Tenses.

9. The category of Voice. The Passive Voice. The use of the finite forms in the Passive Voice.

10. Speak on the variety of Passive Constructions in English.

11. Analyze the reasons for the frequent use of the Passive Voice in English.

12. Compare the modal connotations expressed by the modal verbs can and may.

13. Compare the functions of the modal verbs may and must.

    14. The modal expressions to have to + Infinitive, to be to + Infinitive, to be able to + Infinitive and

their functions.

14. Means of expressing necessity and absence of necessity.

15. Compare the modal functions of the verbs shall and will (would).

16. Compare the use of the modal and regular verbs need and dare.

17. Speak on different means of expressing ability, achievement and advice.

18. Ways of expressing obligation, necessity, supposition.

19. Means of expressing probability, refusal, habits, threat, warning.

20. Ways of expressing offers, suggestions, arrangement, requests.

21. Means of expressing permission, emphatic advice, prohibition, obligation.

22. Ways of expressing doubt, moral obligation, physical and mental ability.

23. Ways of expressing permission (past-time context), past habits, possibility, probability.

24. Means of expressing persistence, promise, reproach, supposition implying uncertainty.