Verbs And Subjects

Question 1

Verbs are obligatory in a clause.
True or false

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Does a clause have verbs in

Answer 2

Yes

Question 3

Does a phrase have verbs in

Answer 3

No

Question 4

Example of a verb phrase containing one verb

Answer 4

I booked a flight on line

Question 5

Example of a verb phrase containing two or more verbs

Answer 5

I shouldn’t have been seeing him

Question 6

When a VP has more than one verb, what will the verbs be

Answer 6

One verb will be lexical and the others will be auxiliary/ modal verbs to show tense, probability or question

Question 7

What can verbs be inflected for

Answer 7

Person (she cooks every day)
Tense (she cooked yesterday)
Aspect (she was cooking all day yesterday)

Question 8

What are the primary auxiliaries

Answer 8

Be have do

Question 9

What do primary auxiliaries help to

Answer 9

Make questions
Make negations
Express a different tense/aspect

Question 10

What is a lexical verb

Answer 10

Action

Question 11

Modal verbs express ideas such as…

Answer 11

Permission, obligation, possibility, necessity, prediction

Question 12

What is a noun phrase

Answer 12

Consist of a noun and all of its modifiers. Modifiers include adjectives, articles, participes, possessive nouns and pronouns but not verbs

Question 13

What is an argument

Answer 13

An argument is a noun phrase bearing a specific grammatical or semantic relation to a verb and whose overt or implied presence is required for well formedness in structures containing that verb.

Question 14

An argument is required by the verb (needed to be grammatical)

Answer 14

True

Question 15

What is an adjunct

Answer 15

Superfluous, less connected to the event, freer in ordering, can be added to further specify any kind of compatible event

Question 16

Are adjuncts obligatory

Answer 16

Never obligatory. The sentence is well formed although some additional information might be lost if the phrase is not there

Question 17

Transitive verbs (eg want)

Answer 17

Take obligatory direct object arguments
Eg *i want vs i want a drink
2 arguments (subject and direct object)

Question 18

Intransitive verbs eg fall

Answer 18

Not permitted to take direct object arguments
Eg im sneezing vs*im sneezing my nose
1 argument (subject)

Question 19

Mixed verbs eg eat

Answer 19

May take an optional direct object argument but are not required to do so im eating vs im eating an apple
3 arguments (subject, direct object, and indirect object )

Question 20

What are the 3 kinds of grammatical arguments

Answer 20

Subjects, direct objects, indirect objects

Question 21

Subjects

Answer 21

-word order (pre verbal)
-nominative case (on pronouns)
-agreement with the verb

Question 22

Direct objects

Answer 22

-word order (post verbal)
-accusative case (on pronouns)
-no agreement with the verb

Question 23

Indirect objects

Answer 23

-word order (post verbal)
-dative case (on pronouns but same as accusative in English)

Question 24

What is the subject?

Answer 24

The noun phrase
Subjects are obligatory
It’s the who/what of the actio

Question 25

When can a noun phrase be replaced by a pronoun

Answer 25

In a nominative case

Question 26

Agreement in regards to the subject

Answer 26

Subject agrees with the verb in number and person.
The cows are under the tree. The cow is under the tree

Question 27

Movement/agreement in regards to subject

Answer 27

Subject inverts first auxilalry if there is one eg Rachel married john vs did Rachel marry john

Question 28

Tag questions in regard to subject

Answer 28

subjects are duplicated and replaced by pronouns
Tom didn’t want to go on a skiing holiday did he?

Question 29

Predicate

Answer 29

• Predicates tend to convey the majority of the information contained in a clause
• Predicates always contain a verb
• A property that a subject has or is characterised by