Syntax

Question 1

syntax

Answer 1

sentence structure

Question 2

grammar

Answer 2

phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic information and rules that speakers of a given language possess

Question 3

pronominalisation

Answer 3

the substitution of a constituent by a pronoun.

Question 4

pro-form

Answer 4

also known as pronoun

Question 5

movement

Answer 5

test for constituency

Question 6

coordination test

Answer 6

test that states it is
only constituents that can be coordinated by the coordinating conjunction
and

Question 7

sentence-fragment test

Answer 7

test for a group of words that lacks one or more of three things

Question 8

structural ambiguity

Answer 8

different interpretations arise through different sentence structures assigned to the same strings of words

Question 9

head

Answer 9

most important element of a phrase

Question 10

noun phrases

Answer 10

phrases headed by a noun

Question 11

PPs

Answer 11

prepositional phrases

Question 12

APs

Answer 12

adjective phrases

Question 13

ADVPs

Answer 13

adverb phrases

Question 14

projections

Answer 14

head projects its properties onto the phrase as a whole

Question 15

word-classes, syntactic categories, parts-of-speech, or lexical categories

Answer 15

adjectives, nouns, verbs, prepositions

Question 16

determiners

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a larger class

Question 17

phrase structure rules

Answer 17

generates sentences

Question 18

subordinate clauses

Answer 18

sentences inside other sentences

Question 19

clause

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syntactic unit that consists minimally of a verb phrase and its subject.

Question 20

Sentences

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largest syntactic units and they are made up of one or more clauses

Question 21

matrix clause

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superordinate clause

Question 22

main clause

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clauses that can stand on their own

Question 23

predicate

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auxiliary and main verbs in a sentence

Question 24

subject-verb agreement

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syntactic process which requires subject and verb to share the same person and number features.

Question 25

case forms

Answer 25

forms that mark the grammatical function of noun phrases in a sentence or phrase

Question 26

transitive verbs

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Verbs that need an object

Question 27

intransitive verbs

Answer 27

verbs that cannot take an object

Question 28

ditransitive

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verbs that can take two objects

Question 29

direct object

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One of the objects denotes an entity that undergoes the action or process denoted by the verb.

Question 30

indirect object

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the other object denotes the goal, the recipient or the beneficiary of the event denoted by the verb

Question 31

adverbial

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constituents that provide information about the circumstances of the action denoted by the verb and its subject and object(s)

Question 32

adverb

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name of a word-class

Question 33

complement

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semantically and structurally highly dependent sister constituents of heads

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predicative complements

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do not behave like objects also in an important other respect, i.e. they cannot be passivised

Question 35

modifier

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a word or phrase intended to change, or modify, another part of the sentence, typically the subject

Question 36

Diction

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defines the style of written or spoken language, representing the choices a speaker or writer makes within the rules of grammar and syntax

Question 37

run-on sentence

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absence of punctuation

Question 38

Oxford comma

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(also called the serial comma) to separate the last item on the list

Question 39

word choice

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the rules of syntax offer the most leeway

Question 40

Sentence Structure

Answer 40

syntax; makes sentences clear and consistent