syntax in English grammar

The most adequate definition of the Syntax

• Syntax is concerned with the external functions of words and their relationship to other words within the linearly ordered units – word groups, sentences, and texts.

• Syntax studies the way in which the units and their meanings are combinedS

• Syntax deals with peculiarities of syntactic units,

       their behavior in different contextsSyntax

• All answers are correct

Kinds of syntactic theories are

• Constructional

  Communicative Paradigmatic

  Transformational Generative

• Constructional syntax

  Communicative syntax

  Pragmatic

  Speech act theory

  Transformational generative Grammar Textlinguistics

  Discourse

• Constructional Paradigmatic (Speech act theory)

  Discourse

• Transformational Generative Grammar

  Speech act theory

Transformational-Generative Grammar was first suggested by

• Boris Ilyish

• Harris Zeiling

• Michael Blokh

• Noam Chomsky

Transformational-Generative Grammar is the endless variety of sentences in a language that can be --------- to a finite number of kernels by means of transformations.

How many kernels are commonly associated with the English language?

• five

• six

• four

• seven

The transformational method proves useful for analyzing sentences from the point of their deep ---------

• meaning

• structure

• function

• position

This analysis deals with the constructional significance/insignificance of a part of the sentence for the whole syntactic unit.

• communicative syntax

• Constructional syntax

• Textlinguistics

• Discourse

How do we call the theory which is based on the obligatory or optional environment of syntactic elements?

• Communicative syntax

• Constructional syntax

• Transformational -generative grammar

What is rheme?

• something that is known already

• informative structure of utterances

What is theme?

• represents some new information

• something that is known already