SYNTAC_FINAL TEST

Minor classes/ open classes: present a double-track classification, one by ___ or by ___

Sequences of words that can function as ______ in the structure of sentences are called PHRASES

1. Phrases form not only ___ (constituents in the structural form of sentences) but also ___. In other words, they form identifiable parts of the___ of sentences, they form ___ units of sense.

1. Clause:

• Constructions with one phrase constituent, typically a noun phrase that bears the ___, and another constituent, the verb phrase, bearing the ___

The phrasal constituent bearing the subject relation is not always ___.

The phrasal constituent bearing the predicate relation may be ___,___.

ADJECTIVES or ADJECTIVE PHRASES have two uses or functions: the ___ function and the ___ function.

1. DETERMINERS (DET):

Articles, demonstratives and possessives are ___ in English: only one of them can occur in any noun phrase

Which of the followings is not true about phrases?

• A phrase is a group of words which functions as a grammatical unit.

• A phrase is a group of words consisting of a noun and all its modifiers.

• A phrase is a group of words consisting of a head word and all its modifiers or

  complement.

•  A phrase has its own function in a sentence.

Which of the followings is true about phrases?

• A phrase contains a finite verb

• A phrase is named by its function

• A phrase contains a non-finite verb

• A phrase does not contain a finite verb