Syntax

Question 1

constituents

Answer 1

phrases or structural units of morphology and phonology. Or Group of words that function together as a unit.

Question 2

pronominalisation

Answer 2

substitution of a constituent by a pronoun.

Question 3

movement

Answer 3

string of words that can be moved, used to test if words or phrases are constituents.

Question 4

replacement test

Answer 4

a type of testing constituents in which constituent is replaced by a single word.

Question 5

coordination test

Answer 5

a type of testing constituents in which combining only constituents of the same kind and only coordination conjunction ends.

Question 6

sentence-fragment test

Answer 6

a type of testing constituents in which tells us if we can answer as a sentence fragment then it can be a constituent.

Question 7

fronting

Answer 7

moving the last phrase of the sentence in front of the the sentence.

Question 8

adjective

Answer 8

express properties or qualities

Question 9

phrase-structure rules

Answer 9

phrase structure grammars that is used to develop whole grammars.

Question 10

subordinate clauses

Answer 10

sentences inside sentences.

Question 11

sentences

Answer 11

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

Question 12

main clauses

Answer 12

clauses that can stand on their own.

Question 13

superordinate clause

Answer 13

matrix clause

Question 14

adverbials

Answer 14

are constituents that are said to give the circumstances of the event denoted by the rest of the sentence.

Question 15

passive sentence

Answer 15

the subject is not the doer.

Question 16

subject-verb agreement

Answer 16

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

Question 17

case forms

Answer 17

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

Question 18

transitive verbs

Answer 18

verbs that need an object.

Question 19

intransitive verbs

Answer 19

verbs that cannot take an object.

Question 20

ditransitive

Answer 20

verbs that can take two objects.

Question 21

direct object

Answer 21

a role in one of the objects that denotes an entity that undergoes the action or process denoted by the verb.

Question 22

indirect object

Answer 22

recipient or the beneficiary of the event denoted by the verb.

Question 23

adverbial

Answer 23

modifiers of the clause or verb phrase

Question 24

predicative complements

Answer 24

complements of verbs, completes meaning of sentence by giving information about a noun. Follow linking verbs.

Question 25

gapping

Answer 25

constituent test that is used to fill in the gap of missing word or string in a sentence.

Question 26

structural ambiguity

Answer 26

different interpretations that arises through different sentence structures assigned to the same string of words.

Question 27

head

Answer 27

most important element of a phrase

Question 28

determiners

Answer 28

combined different large word-classes such as definite and indefinite articles, possessive and demonstratives.

Question 29

clause

Answer 29

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

Question 30

predicate

Answer 30

a part of sentence that says something about the subject.

Question 31

complement

Answer 31

terms used in linguistics for such semantically and structurally highly dependent sister constituents of heads.

Question 32

grammar

Answer 32

refers to the complete system of phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic information and rules that the speakers of a given language possesses.

Question 33

syntax

Answer 33

structure of sentence in grammatical form.

Question 34

structure

Answer 34

organized combination of mutually connected and dependent parts or elements.

Question 35

pro-form

Answer 35

term used by linguists of the term pro-phrase which means pronouns.

Question 36

noun phrases

Answer 36

phrases headed by a noun.

Question 37

prepositional

Answer 37

indicate relationships between other words in a sentence. Usually tells you where something is or when something happened.

Question 38

adjective

Answer 38

modifies or describes a noun.

Question 39

adverb

Answer 39

modifies verbs, adjective, or other adverb.

Question 40

main clause

Answer 40

a term that is potentially competing with matrix clause, or superordinate clause, which refers to clauses that can stand on their own.