WorksheetsADVERBIALS AND OTHER MATTERS
Total questions: 29
Worksheet time: 23mins
Adverbial Phrases modify adjectives, within Adjective Phrases.
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“Do so” in the sentence “Noah mended his bike in the garage and Max did so in the garden” always and only replaces a VP and it is a post-VP.
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The occurrence of adjunct is determined by the verb and its sub-category.
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That you can move a PP around in a sentence is a sure sign that it's functioning as an adverbial and not as a complement of the V.
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Particles can appear in a position after the direct object NP.
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When the direct object is a pronoun, the particle can be moved over it.
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The particle can only move over a direct object NP.
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The particle can move over a subject-predicative NP or can it move over a subject-predicative NP.
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In the sentence "he turned out a brilliant lawyer", the particle "out" cannot move over the subject-predicative NP.
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In the sentence "he put up with John", the particle "up" can move over the PP.
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The distinction between [phrasal verb + NP] and [prepositional verb + verb] is not a distinction between an idiomatic construction and a non-idiomatic construction.
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The VP adverbial relates to the sentence as a whole, considered as a unit instead of modifying some elements within the sentence.
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Conjunct adverbials indicate what kind of relation holds between the VP they modify and the preceding or following discourse.
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The sentence adverbial interpretation is much the more natural interpretation when the adverbial occurs in the middle of the sentence.
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PP in the sentence ‘Max spotted those wildcats with his binoculars’ does not function as complement.
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‘Again, yet, still, already, seldom, often, always, ever, never’ are adverbs relating to
Place
Manner
Time
Purpose
Adjuncts express a wide range of ideas,including manner, means, purpose, reason and __________
Time
Place
Both are correct
Both are incorrect
In addition to PP, adverb phrases (AvdP) can function as (a) adverbials.
(a) of the verb are sisters of Verb.
Adjunct Adverbials are (a) of Verb Phrase.
A phrasal verb consist of a verb + a (a)
Particle movement provides a reliable test for distinguishing between [phrasal verb + (_______ _______)] and [verb + PP]
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The omission from sentences of grammatically obligatory elements capable of being understood in the context of use is called (a) .
__________ ___________provide some comment by the speaker/writer about what he/she is reporting or about how he/she feels he/she is expressing what he/she has to say.
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"Furthermore, thus, however, on contrary, in other words, for a start, in short" are referred as (a) adverbials.
Disjunct adverbials and conjunct adverbials are grouped as __________ __________.
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Which of the following groups are TRANSITIVE phrasal verb?
call off, look up, put down
drink up, end up, turn out
end up, hand down, go along
put down, hand down, put up
Which of the following VPs are a transitive phrasal verb + NP?
saw through the term
saw through her disguise
viciously turned on John
looked out the window
Which of the following sentence in which the adverb functions as a sentence adverbial?
Stupidly, he answered the question.
He answered the question stupidly.
He answered stupidly the question.
He stupidly answered the question.
