Important Flashcards

1
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General adjectives, quantifying adjectives, participle-based adjectives

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Categories of pre-modifiers

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2
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The sleeping baby, a discarded theory, the faded jeans

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Participle-based adjective as premodifiers

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3
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Which category are PPs, adjective phrases, relative clauses in?

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Post-modifiers

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4
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What is one replacement test evidence for?

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The number of N’ nodes in a NP.

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5
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Changing the number (sg/pl) of the verb helps us to identify…

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The head N of the NP subject.

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6
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How to find a NP?

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Substitute with “it” or other pronoun.

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7
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Use for declarative

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Asserting, claiming

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8
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How to make a declarative sentence interrogative?

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Apply SAI

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9
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The process of WH-moving a phrase containing more material than just a WH-word

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Pied-piping

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10
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Declarative and interrogative subclauses can only be…

A

Complements or subjects

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11
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That encodes… and whether encodes…

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A declarative clause-type.

An interrogative clause-type.

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12
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Subclauses that are modifiers

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Relative and adverbial clauses

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13
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The steps to identify the functions of subclauses

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  1. How many finite verbs are in the main clause?
  2. Is there a that-clause with unrealised ‘that’ (Ø)?
  3. Coordination?
  4. Does a subclause function as a relative clause (e.g. where they tell you).
  5. Subject extraposition.
  6. Does a subclause function as a…
    - A direct object? Sister to…?
    - A subject complement (sister to…)?
    - An adverbial (e.g. when you get older,).
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