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What is a constituent in syntax?

• A type of morpheme

• A word that stands alone in a sentence

• A group of words that function as a single unit

• A word that modifies another word

What does a phrase structure rule describe?

• Word meanings

• Sentence semantics

• How constituents are combined

• Ungrammatical sentences

What is the role of a complementizer like "that"?

• To modify nouns

• To introduce subordinate clauses

• To connect independent clauses

• To show past tense

What does movement mean in syntax?

• Changing tenses

• Shifting constituents' positions

• Deleting phrases

• Changing word class

What is recursion in syntax?

• Deletion of repeated words

• Repetition of affixes

• The nesting of structures within structures

• Movement of heads to the front

Which term refers to the structure "It is important that you attend"?

• Cleft clause

• Extraposed subject clause

• Interrogative clause

• Adverbial clause

In X-bar theory, what is the "head" of a phrase?

• The first word

• The lexical item that determines the phrase type

• A word with stress

• The preposition in the phrase

What type of clause is "whether he'll come"?

• Adverbial clause

• Relative clause

• Interrogative complement clause

• Declarative complement clause

Which of these is a finite clause?

• To leave now

• Leaving early

• He left the room

• Having finished the task

In "The cat might have been sleeping," what is the main verb?

• Might

• Have

• Been

• Sleeping