Sentence Structure and Intonation Worksheet

What is the essential characteristic that distinguishes a sentence from a word?

• Being a ready-made unit.

• Its use of punctuation.

• Being a predicative utterance-unit.

• Having clear subject.

Beyond marking boundaries, what is the key communicative role of intonation in a sentence?

• To always indicate a rising tone.

• To participate in giving essential communicative predicative meanings.

• To signal the simple/composite distinction.

• To separate the Theme from the Rheme.

The text suggests that the sentence is formulated during communication. What phenomenon contradicts the idea that a sentence is never a pre-existing unit?

• The existence of complex sentences.

• A limited number of phraseological citations.

• The passive voice structure.

• The use of inversion.

According to the criterion of the aim of the speaker, what is the primary purpose of a declarative sentence?

• To express strong emotion.

• To request a verbal answer.

• To state a fact or convey information.

• To give an order.

What is the typical word order in a declarative sentence?

• Partial inversion.

• Total inversion.

• Regular word order with no inversion.

• Flexible order determined by the Rheme.

General (yes/no) questions are characterized by which specific intonation pattern?

• Falling tone.

• Mixed tone.

• Rising tone.

What structural feature is shared by both general and special interrogative sentences?

• Always using an interrogative word.

• Partial inversion.

• The absence of a subject.

• Falling intonation.

Imperative sentences are overwhelmingly directed at which person?

• The first person singular (I).

• The third person plural (they).

• The second person (you), whether expressed or implied.

• The first person plural (we).

Which grammatical elements are specifically excluded from use in basic imperative sentences?

• Adverbs.

• Nouns.

• Modal verbs.

• Gerunds.

What kind of introductory words characterize some exclamatory sentences?

• If and Whether.

• Do and Did.

• Must and Can.

• What and How.