Practical Grammar 1

What are three major families of words?

• function words

  synonym words

  lexical words

• function words

  nonfunctional words

  lexical words

• function words

  inserts

  lexical words

• function words

  inserts

  synonym words

Lexical words are members of open calsses

• TRUE

• FALSE

The difference between open classes and closed classes is

always clear-cut

• TRUE

• FALSE

... creates new nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs, it changes the

meaning or word class of a word, and often both, and in effect creates a new base

form for the word.

prefixes: ex + president, un + kind, re + read, a +broad

• derivation

• inflection

• compounding

basic elements of the language and items defined in dictionaries are...

• phonemes

• inserts

• words

• valency

which word is an example of a compound?

• girlfriend

• pretty

• friendly

• which

lexical verbs have different forms signaling tense, aspect and voice

• TRUE

• FALSE

... are linking words that introduce prepositional phrases

• auxiliary words

• prepositions

• adverbial particles

• connectors

word "how" is one of the wh-words

• TRUE

• FALSE

subordinators cannot consist of more than one word

• TRUE

• FALSE