UNIVERSITI SAINS MALAYSIA
Oktober/November 1994
HET 303 Struktur Bahasa Inggeris [ 3 jam]
Mas a:
QUESTION 1 AND 2 are COMPULSORY. Answer FOUR [ 4 ] questions.
Equal marks are allocated to all questions.
1.
University greets
these
of modern physics: Einstein's theory of
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THIS EXAMINATION PAPER CONTAINS SIX [6] QUESTIONS IN FOUR [4]
PAGES.
twinkling boyish British
mathematics.
motorized muscle
so
Despite them--Stephen strides
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the In
his the of i a
the is because of greatest fact, he answer to pull off That would handicaps--perhaps
Hawking has managed some of in physics since Albert Einstein, often has been portrayed as this half-century's Einstein.
Grammatical devices may include things Active/Passive voice, SVOA, SVOC, SVC structures,
the verb and noun phrases etc.
Study the following passage carefully. Then comment with examples on the various types of grammatical devices and concepts the writer employs to make it an effective piece of communication,
like
the use of clauses,
He greets visitors to his Cambridge University office with an impish grin and a hint of conspiracy in blue eyes
behind stell-rimmed glasses. Even at 42, I face makes him look more like a student at
university than a distinguished professor But his body, slumped awkwardly in wheel-chair, is thin and wasted, with structure of a bedridden old man. His speech labored it is almost impossible to understand.
Some physicists even think Hawking could one of the greatest coups in science history,
be the creation of the single theory reconciling the twin pillars of modern physics: Einstein's theory of general
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does
the
grammatical
2. passage
.../3
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back could
Formulating whose
and the power of the human intellect.
research bookish, which
somewhat town's
scientists, remove
explains quest to unification fundamental controls the manner;
the universe and
at Einstein,
Salvador
his own right, in Paris. As beauty of Paris, or aim in life.
of his Stephen's
The following passage contains grammatical errors.
Correct the errors and then give grammatical explanations for each error.
Finding the underlying interaction of these theories is an
who believe that the last
of the universe.
that almost religious
such a barrier to a
Just as Einstein pulled age, a unifying theory for mankind.
Hawking, adaptability
Dali, the surrealist painter, was a genius in He was never born in his native Spain but
a young man, he grew up in the scenic He seemed to have no purpose, direction One fine day he discovered his niche in Hawking whose father was a is the eldest of four children of a knit family. At Oxford University,
he was free-spirited, and popular among his friends
For a while Hawking was crews.
relativity, behavior of itself and
quantum-mechanics level,
Crippling Disease, scientist, tightly
he entered in 1959, unruly,
many pubs.
the second of his college's both
some would
understanding
the curtain on the atomic age, a usher in a new era of understanding
this theory is the goal of Stephen life is a remarkable lesson in grit, atomic
spent
these seeming contradictions of randomness of quantum mechanics.
God plays dice with the cosmos,"
which declares that gravity planets, stars, galaxies and
it in a predictable manner; and the theory, which maintains that, at the matter behaves randomly. Einstein, who the last 30 years of his life trying to reconcile seeming contradictions of nature, rejected the
"I cannot believe that he said.
witty, in the coxswain on
Because of his first-rate mind, his teachers tolerated Stephen's casual approach to academic life.
Though he did little work, he could easily handle any mathematical problem put before him. At graduation he was required to take a special oral exam to determine whether he should receive a first-class honors degree
(equivalent to magna cum laude in American universities), which he needed to gain a scholarship for a graduate physics program at Cambridge, Oxford's ancient rival.
first-rate mind, casual approach to did little work, he could easily
problem put before him. At to take a special oral exam should receive a first-class
cum
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of
Salvador Dali will always
3.
or
4.
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Many in the this friends continue
balcony him.
between verbs need to be drawn not only object and complement types but also the ship's name
the name of the ship.
In
between
GENETIVE for the prepositional form.
Distinctions relation
relation contrast
English there is a functional similarity and the -S- GENETIVE for the inflection and the
For example:
in in aspectual
Explain As a
living. moody this His
troubled been
this period of self collection of great family for years.
are compelling reasons for preferring one or the Oftentimes there are
is overlap OF- painting.
were not good, techniques on his own.
to his wife
When he passed away, seldom had a city like Madrid seen a more costlier funeral. Salvador Dali will always remain alive to all people in the art world for his contribution to surrealist art.
Painting on the
an idea hit him. He To the layman, surrealistic Dali was to become from that day the father of abstract art: surrealism. Soon
'there goes Mr.
depicting that
During had a in his
to object and complement types to whether they themselves admit the of progressive and non-progressive. with examples the categories of verb in English-
life. - painting. Initially, the quality of his paintings were not good. But he labored and discovered new techniques on his own. One of his close
confided to his wife 'If I were him I wouldn't to live the life of an artist.'
of his apartment one summer, discovered surrealistic art.
art is abstract art. Dali was to become from that onwards the father of abstract art: surrealism,
everyone was saying 'there goes Mr. Dali whom they say is the best surrealist artist in the world.
surrealist artist Dali was better than any He then moved to Madrid.
person, he was given to bouts of depression, was the period of some of his great pieces of abstract painting entitled CONFLICT,
mind, was one of the best paintings done this century. He painted profusely, period of self doubt and depression he
of great works and which has been
painter However Dali, being a
But art.
the have
Salvador Dali lived to a ripe old age of 84.
art world do not forget his enthusiasm who brought
movement of surrealism to greatest heights. Many thought his paintings were more preferable than any other artist of his time including Picasso.
There
other construction in a given case,
numerous environments in which only one construction grammatically acceptable. Comment.
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Write a few sentences on each of the following:
5.
the clause in English.
[a]
finite and non-finite verb phrase.
[b]
verb forms and their functions.
[c]
determiners in the English language.
[d]
[e] modals.
adjectives briefly on the syntactic functions
6.
attributive and predicative.
[a]
postpositive (or post-posed).
[b]
[c] head of noun phrase.
verbless adjective clause.
[d]
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Write briefly on the syntactic functions of
with specific reference to the following areas as:
