Syntax Quiz

dog and dogs belong to the same ....

• word-forms

• lexeme

• orthographic words

Below are the distributional criteria for nouns, except....

• nouns can be preceded by words such as the, a, this/these, that/those, etc.

• Nouns can also be preceded by adjectives.

• nouns denote people, animals, things or places

Common nouns consist of .....

• countable and non-countable

• cardinal and ordinal

• proper and numeral

Example of proper nouns ......

• butter

• Sarah

• two

pronoun does not mean ....

• ‘from a noun’

• ‘for a noun’

• ‘instead of a noun’

Noun Phrases are strings of words whose central element is a ....

• subject

• phrase

• noun

...... function as the central elements of phrases .

• Heads

• Words

• Subject

Any word that can take a tense inflection is a ....

• predicator

• verb

• predicate

From the relationship between verb and tense; verbs are categorized into ...

• Finite verb and Non-finite verb

• Main verb and helping verb

• Lexical verb and Auxiliaries verb

Verbs that can stand on their own ....

• Main verbs

• Helping verbs

• Finite verbs