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Syntax and Teaching Grammar
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Syntax and Teaching Grammar Descripción: I BIMESTER DIC-2020 Autor:
Fecha de Creación: 04/12/2020 Categoría: Universidad Número Preguntas: 26 |
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Word categories that express meaning are nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs True False. Grammatical words are used to refer places, people and actions True False. Morpho-syntactic criteria deal with inflectional and derivational affixes True False. English is a very inflected language True False. All English nouns meet the criterion of appearing to the left of the verb in active, declarative statements True False. Nouns have some semantic properties as referring to people, things, etc. True False. Speakers use grammar structures to make statements, ask questions and issue commands True False. Referring is performed by verbs and adjectives in English. True False. Predication in English is performed by nouns. True False. Syntactic criteria deal with the structure of phrases and clauses. True False. Syntax is a branch of linguistics that deals with the structure and function ofphrases, clauses and sentences. Therefore,this science has to do with: … the structure of words the structure of essays and composition how words are put together to form phrases, and how clauses and sentences are formed. One important distinction between ‘heads’ and ‘modifiers’ is that the head controls other clauses in any structure the head controls the modifiers in a clause. the modifier controls the head of any phrase. Traditionally, a complement is a constituent of a clause, noun phrase or adjectivephrase that is used to predicate a description of the subject or object of a clause.It includes the direct object, indirect object, predicative complement and obliqueobject. On the other hand, an adjunct is an optional part of a sentence that can beremoved without affecting the meaning of the clause; for example, the phrase “inGeneva” in the clause: Christian is in Geneva right now She lives in Geneva Manuel visited his friend in Geneva. Complements can take different forms. For example, they can appear as: nouns, gerunds, articles and among others infinitive verbs, nouns, adjectives among others adjectives, adverbials, nouns, among others. Each phrase in English has one essential element, which determines the type of phrasal structure. For example, if the headword is a noun, then the structurecontaining it is a noun phrase. Therefore, nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs can function as the head of a phrase. nouns, verbs, adjectives and prepositions can function as the head of a phrase. conjunctions, nouns, verbs, and adjectives can function as the head of a phrase. It can be defined as a necessary constituent (word or expression) that completesthe meaning of a phrase or clause. This constituent is known as: Modifier Adjective Complement. In the clause “ Sam hunted a rabbit in that hill yesterday”, the noun phrase “arabbit” completes the meaning of the verbal form “hunted”; while, the word“yesterday” adds extra information to the clause. Therefore, the word “yesterday”is … an adjunct a noun a complement. In the clause “Two of my school colleagues play soccer in this park”, the subject isformed by a head word and its modifiers. The head is the word: School Two Colleagues. In English, non-copula constructions are built around transitive and intransitiveverbs, while, copula constructions are built around the verb BE and few otherverbs; in addition, only non- copula constructions with transitive verbs can have adirect object, as illustrated in: The president sent a message The president is very conceit The president looks sad. According to phrase structure rules in English, a phrase is a string of words whichexpresses meaning as illustrated in the structure He and his family live in Miami Lives in Miami He lives with his family in Miami. Verbs that express movement as the verb GO in the clause “James goes to thebeach on holidays”usually are followed by prepositional phrases of direction like to the beach as the complement of the verb prepositional phrases of direction like on holidays as the complement of the verb prepositional phrases of place like to the beach as the complement of the verb. There are different... in English; they are used in speech and writing to askquestions, give commands, or make statements. structural patterns modifiers adverbial structures. The structure “Victor plays the piano beautifully”, illustrates an English clause,which, according to the rule, contains basically a noun phrase referring to the person performing an action or event, and a verb phrase referring to the action being performed. a phrase referring to an event or action and a phrase referring to the person performing the action or event. a verb phrase followed by a noun phrase. In the clauses (a) Maria finished the term paper for this coming week and (b)‘Maria finished it’,... the word it functions just a pronoun, not as a noun phrase. both expressions the term paper for this coming week and it are recognized as noun phrases. only the string of words the term paper for this coming week is recognized as a phrase. In English, phrase structures are meaningful strings of words that form constituents;then phrasal constituents of different types form larger structuresknown as: phrases. sentences. clauses. Words in English are classed into Lexical and grammatical. Lexical or content words have denotation; on the other hand grammatical or function words do not have denotation. The group of lexical words includes these categories... nouns, verbs, adverbs and adjectives nouns, verbs, conjunctions and articles articles, adverbs, demostratives and prepositions. |
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