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Questions for self-assessment

1. Dwell upon different approaches as to the classification
of parts of speech.
2. What are the classes of nouns differentiated according to
different criteria. Provide examples.
3. State the difference between the countable and
uncountable nouns. Are there any similarities and differences in
these groups of nouns in the contrasted English and Ukrainian
languages?
4. Provide examples of nouns containing typical stem-
building elements in English and Ukrainian.
5. Give the general characteristic of grammatical categories
of the noun in English and Ukrainian. Are there any differences in
number and the way of their expression?
6. Present the opinions of scholars who differentiate other
grammatical categories of a noun besides the categories of
number, gender and case.
7. Mention the groups, into which adjectives are subdivided
as a class of lexemes, taking into account their grammatical and
semantic characteristics. Provide examples.
8. Mention the allomorphic groups of adjectives in both
contrasted languages.
9. Describe the grammatical categories of adjectives as a
part of speech. Does their number differ in the contrasted
languages?
10. Compare the English verb system with the Ukrainian
verb system.
11. Characterize the verb as a part of speech (think of the
number of the grammatical categories, typical stem-building
elements, combinability, syntactic functions). Do these
characteristics differ in the contrasted languages?
12. Dwell upon the isomorphic and allomorphic features of
the category of tense in the contrasted languages

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