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‘Clause’ means:

(a) A syntactical unit which is smaller than a sentence.

(b) There are basically two types, main clauses and subordinate clauses

(d) All of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: All of A, B, and C

‘Constituent’ means:

(a) Any unit which is part of a larger one.

(b) This can be a recognisable part of a word as with lexical compounds or it can be a phrase in a sentence as indicated in tree representations in phrase structure grammar.

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: a & b

What meant by the is term Accusative’?

(a) In an inflectional language the formal marking of the direct object of a verb.

(b) A similar marking may be used after prepositions.

(c) As a term from traditional Latin grammar the term inappropriate to modern English as the latter does not have any corresponding inflection.

(d) All of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: All of A, B, and C

‘Active’ means:

(a) A reference to a type of sentence in which the semantic subject is also the formal subject; contrasts with passive in which this is not the case.

(b) This type is generally taken as more basic than a passive sentence.

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: a & b

Syntax is:

(a) The study of the sound system of a language or languages.

(b) The study of sentence structure

(c) The study of the structure of language without any concern for practical applications which might arise from one’s work.

(d) The study of human sounds.

Question’s Answer: The study of sentence structure

‘Declarative’ means:

(a) A type of sentence which makes a positive statement rather than negating a statement or asking a question.

(b) Taken as the basic type of sentence.

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: a & b

‘Deep structure’ is:

(a) A level in grammar specifically syntax – in which ambiguities in structure do not exist and in which the semantic interpretation of a sentence is clear

(b) Contrast surface structure

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: a & b

Generative linguistics’ means:

(a) The main school of linguistics today which assumes that speakers’ knowledge of language is largely unconscious and essentially rule-governed.

(b) The models used by these linguists are intended to generate. i.e. properly describe, how deep structures are mapped onto actual sentences.

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: a & b

‘Government’ means:

(a) In general any linguistic situation in which one form demands another

(b) For instance in German the adverb ungeachtet governs the genitive case.

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: a & b

What is meant by the term ‘Determiner”?

(a) A linguistic item, such as an article, a pronoun or a numeral, which co-occurs with a noun and in some way qualifies – or determines the noun.

(b) This is a cover term for articles, demonstrative and possessive pronouns.

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: a & b

‘Embedding’ means:

(a) A syntactical unit which is smaller than a sentence.

(b) The insertion of one syntactic phrase or unit within another, e.g. The girl who stood up is my sister.

(c) A reference to a type of sentence in which the semantic subject is also the formal. subject; contrasts with passive in which this is not the case.

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: The insertion of one syntactic phrase or unit within another, e.g. The girl who stood up is my sister.

‘Dependent’ means:

(a) Any linguistic element which requires the presence of another in a structure or whose form is determined by another element or a grammatical category.

(b) For instance the form of the definite article in German which depends on the gender, number and case of the noun it co- occurs with.

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: a & b

Empty word’ means:

(a) It contrasts explicitly with a content word

(b) Or expressing syntactic a relationship, e.g. it in It’s Patrick’s turn to sing a song

(c) A word which does not carry any meaning of its own but which frequently plays a role in indicating a grammatical category

(d) All of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: A word which does not carry any meaning of its own but which frequently

plays a role in indicating a grammatical category

‘Indicative’ means:

(a) A factual mood which is used to make statements rather than issue commands (imperative)

(b) or make uncertain, hypothetical statements (subjunctive)

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: a & b

‘Nominative’ means:

(a) A case which indicates the subject of a sentence and the obligatory complement of a verb.

(b) It is usually taken to be neutral or basic and is used for the citation form of a noun.

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: a & b

‘Part of speech’ means:

(a) Any set of words which form a grammatical group, i.e.

(b) Which can indicate the same categories or relations, e.g. nouns, verbs, adverbs, prepositions.

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: a & b

‘Phrase’ Means:

(a) Any group of words which are taken to be less than a sentence, e.g.

(b) By lacking a finite verb, but which are regarded as forming a unit grammatically.

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: a & b

‘Noun phrase’ means:

(a) Any part of a sentence which has a noun as its head

(b) It can range from a single noun to a complex phrase

(d) All of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: All of A, B, and C

Grammar means:

(a) A level of linguistics which is concerned with the manner in which words combine together structurally to form sentences

(b) In this sense grammar is a descriptive phenomenon.

(c) It can also be used to refer to speakers’ knowledge of how to produce well-formed sentences in which case it is an ability, it is speakers’ competence in the generative sense.

(d) All of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: All of A, B, and C

What is meant by the term ‘Oblique case’?

(a) Two or more clauses which are linked by using conjunctions, i.e. the clauses have equal status, e.g.

(b) A term in grammar which denotes a class which does not have a pre-determined number of members.

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: A term referring to all cases except the nominative.

What is meant by the term ‘Open’?

(a) A term in grammar which denotes a class which does not have a pre-determined number. of members.

(b) A term referring to all cases except the nominative.

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: A term in grammar which denotes a class which does

not have a pre-determined number. of members.

What is meant by the term ‘Pluperfect”?

(a) A form of verbs found in many Indo-European languages and which expresses an action which is in the remote past;

(b) Those languages which possess such a tense also have a simple tense which is understood to refer to a time closer to the present.

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: a & b

What is meant by the term ‘Predicative’?

(a) A reference to an adjective which occurs after a form of the copula be instead of before the noun it qualifies

(b) Some adjectives can only occur in this position, e.g. The girl is awake but The awake girl is ungrammatical.

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: a & b

What is meant by the term ‘Syntagm’?

(a) The investigation of the possible combinations of words in a language

(b) The form in which a sentence actually appears in speech; contrast this with structure. deep

unit (phrase or sentence).

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: Any set of elements which can be strung together as a linear sequence, i.e. as a syntactic

unit (phrase or sentence).

‘Tree diagram’ means:

(a) A method of representing the structure of a sentence occasionally a compound that the

internal hierarchical or organisation is evident.

(b) Such structures can be equally well represented using bracketing but this is not as

effective visually.

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: a & b

‘Parataxis’ means:

(a) Two or more clauses which are linked by using conjunctions, i.e.

(b) The clauses have equal status, e.g. He came home and went to. bed immediately.

(a) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: a & b

‘Preposition’ means:

(a) A grammatical word which occurs in conjunction with a noun or phrase and which expresses the relation it has to other elements in a sentence.

(b) In an analytic language like English prepositions play a central role in the grammar.

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: a & b

‘Simple’ means:

(a) A reference to a sentence which consists of only one clause.

(b) A form of a verb which does not involve the use of an auxiliary.

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: a & b

‘Subordination’ means:

(a) A general reference relationship of to a dependence between two elements, units or phrases, for instance

(b) A subordinate clause is one which is dependent on a main clause which it

usually follows He said that she was tired.

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: a & b

‘Surface structure’ means:

(a) Any set of elements which can be strung together as a linear sequence, i.e. as a syntactic

unit (phrase or sentence).

(b)The form in which a sentence actually appears in speech; contrast this with deep structure.

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: The form in which a sentence actually appears in speech; contrast this with deep structure.

‘Slot’ means:

(a) Any point in a syntagm

(b) A linear structure such as a phrase or sentence

(d) All of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: All of A, B, and C

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