1- he hyponym and the superordinate in the sentence ‘Which drink do you like, coffee or tea?
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are_________ respectively.
A.drink – coffee/tea
B.coffee/tea – drink
C.coffee - tea
2- What is the figurative speech used in the Vietnamese sentence ‘Lớp học này rất chăm chỉ.’?
A.Metaphor
B.Onomatopoeia
C.Metonymy
3- Which concerns the substitution of different words for the words in the existing sentence?
A.Sense relation
B.Syntagmatic relation
C.Paradigmatic relation
4- How is the word ‘love’ in the sentence ‘The final tennis score is fifteen – love.’ formed?
A.Conversion
B.Derivation
C.Shortening
5- As proposed by Do Huu Chau (1999), the word ‘nhà cửa’ in the sentence ‘Chúng ta cần dọn
dẹp nhà cửa trước Tết’ is formed by ____________.
A.Conversion
B.Affixation
C.Compounding
6- What is the syntactic function of the phrase ‘cốt truyện hấp dẫn’ in the sentence ‘Cô ấy khen
cốt truyện hấp dẫn.’ based on Nguyen Van Hiep’s theory?
A.It is the complement.
B.It is the predicate.
C.It is the object.
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7- What is the syntactic function of the clause ‘where I have a lot of wonderful moments’ in
the sentence ‘This is the class where I have a lot of wonderful moments.’?
A.It is the complement.
B.It is the attribute.
C.It is the adjunct.
8- What is the syntactic function of the phrase ‘khóc rất to’ in the sentence ‘Tôi nghe thấy bọn
trẻ khóc rất to.’ based on Nguyen Van Hiep’s theory?
A.It is the predicate.
B.It is the attribute.
C.It is the complement.
9- There is an adjunct of _________ in the sentence ‘Trong hoàn cảnh này, mỗi người cần phải
tự cố gắng hết sức mình’ based on Diep Quang Ban’s theory?
A.Place
B.situation
C.concession
10- The order of the attributes in an English noun phrase is __________ that in a Vietnamese
one.
A.less flexible than
B.as flexible as
C.more flexible than
11- Read the two following questions and give the answers. (Your answer to each question
must be less than 150 words.)
1. How are synonyms in English and Vietnamese formed? Give at least two examples in each
formation process in both English and Vietnamese for illustration.
2. Read the two following sentences, then make a contrastive analysis of the grammatical
category of number in the underlined parts between English and Vietnamese.
a. We bought many books for her.
b. Trên sân vận động, tất cả các cầu thủ đã sẵn sàng vào trận đấu.
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Answer text
1. Synonyms in English can be formed through processes such as affixation (adding prefixes or
suffixes), compounding (combining two or more words), and borrowing (adopting words from
other languages). For example:
• Affixation: happy → unhappy, comfortable → uncomfortable
• Compounding: bedroom, brainstorm
• Borrowing: café, pizza
Synonyms in Vietnamese can be formed through similar processes such as affixation,
compounding, and borrowing. For instance:
• Affixation: vui → buồn vui, thoải mái → không thoải mái
• Compounding: phòng ngủ, ôn tập
• Borrowing: café, pizza
2. In the underlined parts of the sentences, English and Vietnamese display differences in the
expression of number. In English, “many” in sentence (a) indicates a plural quantity, specifying
that multiple books were bought. However, in sentence (b), the absence of explicit plural
markers like “all the players” in Vietnamese indicates plurality through context and does not
require a specific marker for number agreement. Additionally, Vietnamese often uses
classifiers like “các” (meaning “all” or “the”) to specify a group of items, whereas English uses
the article “the” or plural markers like “all” for the same purpose.
