PNJA grammar 24/25
strona dla grup 1, 3 i 4 (nie dotyczy grupy 2)
strona dla grup 1, 3 i 4 (nie dotyczy grupy 2)
LINK TO OUR END-OF-SEMESTER TEST
The link is active now and will remain active for 24 hours, until 8:00 AM on Monday, June 2nd. Once you open the test form, you will have 60 minutes to answer various multiple-choice questions based on Exercises 1–6 below. The test form consists of 5 short sections. The first section contains just two questions - e-mail, name and surname. After completing a section, click "Next" at the bottom; after completing the last section (section 5) click "Submit" at the bottom. Your semester grade will appear in USOS on June 2nd. If you score below 50%, I will contact you individually to arrange a resit. Please don't be too stressed with the time limit of 60 min. It is a guideline rather than a deadline. If you exceed it, nothing terrible will happen. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Best of luck with the test!
Kind regards, JW
Struktura frazy nominalnej 2 (added for 27.04)
Relative clauses 2 (added for 11.05)
Exercises 1–6 above comprehensively cover our spring semester syllabus. Our on-line spring semester test scheduled for June 1st will be based solely on the above exercises.
Here are some additional passive voice exercises The passive 2, The passive 3 (useful for our PNJA grammar exam on June 22nd, togeteher with all the other exercises on this page) - added for 25.05
List of topics for the spring semester:
Struktura frazy nominalnej (plural forms, gender, the possessive case, types of nouns, articles, determiners and pronouns);
Przymiotnik i przysłówek (Comparison (adjs and advs), adjectives used attributively and predicatively, adjective structures, order of adjectives, adjectives and adverbs with the same form (the difference in meaning), position of adverbs, inversion of verb after certain adverbs, sentence adverbs).
Zdania względne (defining vs. non-defining, Sentence building with relative clauses, Shortened constructions);
Inwersja i konstrukcje emfatyczne (Fronting; Introductory there and it; emphasis using what, all and it).
Link to our main coursebook (Side & Wellman)
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Winter (autumn) semester - gone now but the exercises below will be useful for the summer PNJA exam so come back here now and then.
Exercise 1 Conditionals, ureal tenses, subjunctives (13.10)
Exercise 2 Present perfect (20.10)
Exercise 3 Other perfect tenses (17.11)
Exercise 4 - Future tenses (24.11)
Exercise 5 - the passive 1 (08.12)
Exercise 6 - Reported speech (15.12) - AI generated - Radio podcast about reported speech (based on Side and Wellman, 15 min. of fun:)
Exercise 7 - Adverbial clauses (12.01.25), have a look at what Chat GPT did with it, clearly- the time of human grammar teachers and human-written grammar books is over: https://chatgpt.com/share/6782547d-b82c-8002-9bef-8c30066b4361
Each exercise contains "the theoretical part"- study it first then do the exercises and submit your answers . After submitting the answers press the "view" button to see your score, the key and all the incorret answers marked in red. Don't feel stressed, this is not a test yet. I even dare to hope (deep down) that you might sometimes enjoy it - after all, studying should be fun. Contact me if you have any questions at jacek.wozny@uwr.edu.pl . If you get a score, say, below 80%- do the exercise again (and again if need be). The links will be here all the time, you can always click on them.
You will hear from me very soon, Unabashedly yours, with kind regards,
Jacek Woźny
PS Preemptively answering the question you would all like an answer to but are afraid to ask: - no, it is not difficult to get a passing grade from me at the end of the semester - we will have a test based on our exercises from this page. If you do them, there should be no problem at all.
Autumn ("winter") semester topics (from our syllabus):
(1) Real and unreal tenses - revision (present, future, past and perfect tenses;
conditionals and ureal past);
(2) Passive voice (subject formation from the active voice: formation from a single
object and from two objects, formation of the auxiliary passive, non-formation of the
passive from two objects Passive constructions with the infinitive);
(3) Reported speech (Tense and word changes - general review, Possible changes in
auxiliary verbs, Suggestions, requests, and commands);
(4) Adverbial clauses (types of adverbial clauses: result, reason/cause, purpose,
concession, time, comparison, manner).