An Introduction to Language: Fromkin and Rodman

What is the definition of grammatical sentence?

• A sentence in accordance with the rules of the grammar of a language.

• Words grouped together randomly have little meaning on their own, unless it occurs accidentally.

• A particular form of procedure for accomplishing or approaching something, especially a systematic or established one.

• The rules specify that found must be followed directly by an expression.

Which one in the sentence below is Grammatical sentence?

• The woman said that the little girl saw yesterday's herself.

• The taxi driver said that the man hit that careless himself.

• The man in the blue jacket said that the dog bit himself.

• The soldiers know that the generals like today's themselves.

Grammaticality does not depend on these following statements, except?

• Whether the sentence is meaningful or not.

• The truth of the sentences.

• The sentences that you might not having heard before.

• The structure of the sentences.

From the following sentences, which one is the ungrammatical one?

• A verb crumpled the milk

• The boy quickly in the house the ball found

• The child found the puppy

• The horse that placed at Del Mar fell

One of the way to explain the ambiguity of a phrase/sentence is by…

• Identifying the lexical categories

• Making a tree diagram

• Analyzing the word structure

• Finding the sentence relatedness

“The passerby helped dog bite victim.”

The following statements are correct based on the ambiguous sentences above, except…

• The passerby helped a dog to bite someone

• The passerby helped a person bitten by the dog

• The passerby was helped by someone bitten by the dog

• The passerby was helping someone bitten by the dog

These statements are true, except...

• Lexical ambiguity is the main cause of syntactic ambiguity.

• A syntactic ambiguity can occur when a sentence has multiple phrase trees.

• A syntactic ambiguity can occur in spoken and written utterances.

• It can lead to many wrong interpretations.

“Sarah gave a bath to her dog wearing a pink t-shirt”

Which one is the possible interpretation of the sentence above?

• Sarah and her dog are wearing a pink t-shirt

• Sarah gave a bath to her dog using a pink t-shirt

• No one is wearing a pink t-shirt

• The dog is wearing a pink t-shirt

A grammatical relation also called as…

• Thematic roles and syntactic function

• Grammatical function and grammatical traditional

• Grammatical roles and grammatical functions

• Grammatical traditional and thematic roles

Which one is correct answer related Grammatical Relation such as subject and direct object…

• The manager gave him no choice

• My uncle donated his salary to charity

• Bryan taught math

• He asked me to open the door please