Sentence Analysis and The Uses of Grammar

When the word there is used as an introductory word at the beginning of a sentence, it is called a what?

• Ellipsis

• Auxiliary word

• Expletive

• Adverb

When the verb in a sentence consists of more than one word, the last word of the

 

group is called the __________verb or the main verb.

• Auxiliary

• Notional

• Apparitional

• Stative

When the verb in a sentence consists of more than one word, the verb preceding

 

the main verb is called the ___________verbs or helping verbs.

• Auxiliary

• Notional

• Stative

• Finite

May, might, must, can, could, would, and should are called _______________auxiliaries.

• Modal

• Finite

• intransitive

• Linking

Which helping verb is used in the present and the past, combined with the simple infinitive of the main verb to make the emphatic form?

• Have

• Be

• Do

• Shall

Nouns may have adjectival uses, true or false?

• True

• False

What is a word that connects a noun (or substantive) to some other part of the sentence?

• Conjunction

• Preposition

• Subordinating conjunction

• Pronoun

Which of the following is NOT one of the most common types of relationships between prepositions and their objects.

 

• Space

• Agency

• Time

• Occasion

A nominative absolute phrase modifies the whole sentence, true or false?

• True

• False

The subject of the infinitive will be in the ______________________________ case.

• Nominative

• Objective

• Possessive