Test Syntax Year 2

Which of the words below do not meet the Morphological Criterion for being considered "nouns"?

• dogs

• cats

• sheep

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CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.K.1B

According to the Distributional Criterion, nouns are words that can be preceded by:

• determiners, adjectives, nouns

• determiners, demonstratives, adjectives

• determiners, nouns, verbs

An example of a determiner is:........... in ".............man":

• the

• he

• big

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CCSS.L.1.1F

CCSS.L.2.1E

Which of the affixes below is not adjectival?

• -en

• -ful

• -ive

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CCSS.L.3.1A

A Verb Phrase is a string of words built around a:

• Noun

• Preposition

• Verb

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CCSS.L.4.1E

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

In "The book was green", "green" has:

• an attributive use

• a predicative use

• a copular use

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CCSS.L.2.4D

"Every XP has an X head" is also known as:

• Endocentricity Compounding

• The Principle of Endocentricity

• The Principle of Exocentricity

The example "[The woman and the man] came to the party." shows that:

• "the woman" and "the man" are constituents

• "the woman" is a constituent

• "the man" is a constituent

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CCSS.L.4.1E

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

In "He gave her [a green book]", [a green book] does not pass the following constituency tests:

• substitution, coordination

• substitution, ellipsis

• ellipsis, deletion

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CCSS.L.8.2A

CCSS.L.8.2B

"It was Fred who ate the beans yesterday" is an example of:

• a pseudo-cleft construction

• a cleft construction

• an impersonal construction