Constituency tests

Choose the option that shows CLEFTING

Sentence: Ana drinks milk

• It is Ana that drinks milk

• Ana and Alex drink milk

• Who drinks milk? Ana

• *Drinks milk

Choose the option that shows COORDINATION

Sentence: Ana drinks milk

• It is Ana that drinks milk

• Ana and Alex drink milk

• Who drinks milk? Ana

• *Drinks milk

Choose the option that shows OMISSIBILITY

Sentence: Ana drinks milk every night.

• Ana drinks milk and eats cookies

• Ana drinks every night

• Ana and Chris drink milk every night

• Ana drinks milk.

Choose the option that shows that the underlined section is a constituent.

Sentence: The tall kid fell from the tree

• Who fell from the three? The kid

• The tall kid and her neighboor fell from the tree

• The tall kid fell from the tree and from the bed

• The tall kid fell from the bed

Choose the option that shows that the underlined section is a constituent.

Sentence: The tall kid fell from the tree

• The tall kid fell

• The tall kid and her neighboor fell from the tree

• The tall kid fell from the tree and from the bed

• The tall kid fell from the bed

Choose the option that shows that the underlined section is a constituent.

Sentence: His parents visited New York last year

• Who visited New York? His parents

• It was New York that his parents visited last year

• His parents visited Las Vegas last year

• His parents visited New York last year and the year before

Choose the option that shows that the underlined section is a constituent.

Sentence: His parents visited New York last year

• Who visited New York? His parents

• It was New York that his parents visited last year

• His parents visited Las Vegas last year

• His parents visited New York last year and the year before

The CLEFTING formula is:

• That Y and X

• It is X that Y

• It is X and Y

• Only X not Y

To use COORDINAITON we need to use a:

• Conjunction

• Preposition

• Determiner

• Pronoun

When using ANSWER TO QUESTION, the part being tested has to be a possible...

• Question

• Sentence

• Constituent

• Answer