Ch 4 From word to text

In English the subject usually precedes the verb and the direct object usually follows the verb based on the grammatical rules.

• True

• False

“Under the table” is a subordinate endocentric construction.

• True

• False

“Kicking the ball” is an endocentric construction with “kicking” as its head.

• True

• False

There are 4 kinds of cohesive resources in the English language: reference, ellipsis, conjunction and lexical cohesion.

• True

• False

Modifiers in English refer to those adjective phrases used before nouns.

• False

• True

According to construction types, prepositional phrases such as “in the classroom” is regarded as a(n) ________ construction.

• exocentric

• endocentric

• subordinate

• coordinate

________ refer to the relationship that linguistic units have with other units because they may occur together in a sentence.

• Syntagmatic relations

• Hypotactic relations

• Paradigmatic relations

• Paratactic relations

Which of the following is NOT included in the three classes of syntactic relations?

• positional relations

• relations of co-occurrence

• relations of expansion

• relations of substitutability

________ refers to a major constituent of sentence structure in a binary analysis in which all obligatory constituents other than the subject is considered together.

• Subject

• Predicate

• Object

• Complement

The sentence “They were wanted to remain quiet and not to expose themselves.” is a ________ sentence.

• simple

• coordinate

• compound

• complex