Contrastive Grammar

Final Test 2 (max.50 pts.)

1. Discuss and provide examples of three types of categorical contrast between English and Polish. (5 pts.)

2. What three criteria are used to distinguish modal auxiliary verbs from lexical verbs in English? Illustrate these criteria with your own examples. (5 pts)

3. How does the grammar of Polish use word order to express definiteness/specificity? Provide your own examples with their English equivalents. ( 5 pts.)

4. Enumerate all Slavic languages you know and classify them into subgroups. (5 pts)

5. Indicate all relevant anaphoric interpretation of the following Polish examples:

Piotr położył deski na siebie.

(5pts) Explain these interpretations in English

6. Provide your own three examples of ambiguous anaphoric (reciprocal or reflexive) binding in Polish. What are their English equivalents? (5 pts.)

7. How can Contrastive Analysis be applied to testing in language teaching ( 5 pts.)

8. Provide your own examples with collective nouns English and polish in the subject position. What type of agreement do they force on the verb? ( 5 pts)

9. Do exercises 104, 105 and 125. ( 10 pts.)

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