WorksheetsEnglish Grammar Units 1 - 3
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
The following is NOT a type of verbal complementation:
a) Complex-transitive
b) Copular
c) Objective
What is the syntactic valency of the verb “to wait”?
a) One
b) two
c) three
What is the semantic valency of the verb “to wait”?
a) One
b) Two
c) Three
What type of element canot be found in intransitive constructions?
a) Locative complements
b) Subject complements
c) Object complements
What is “to talk to” in: He became grumpy and difficult to talk to”?
a) Adjectival complement
b) Supplementive clause
c) An attributive
Which of the following sentences does NOT contain a linking verb?
a) The laces came undone.
b) That proved to be a bad idea.
c) He ran a marathon.
Which two functions are played by the same element in an ergative pair?
a) subject and predicate
b) subject and direct object
c) direct object and indirect object
Which of the following sentences has NOT undergone valency reduction?
a) I am.
b) You eat.
c) He sighs.
What is the correct analysis of the predicate in: I believe in peace?
a) V (believe) + adjunct (in peace)
b) V (believe in) + PO (peace)
c) V (believe) + in peace (Locative complement)
What is the analysis of the predicate in: “I gave an ultimatum to the enemy”?
a) DO+PO
b) DO+IO
c) DO+OC
What is NOT useful to conclude that an element such as “the meal” in “She thanked me for the meal” is a PO?
a) It can be made subject in a passive clause.
b) It encodes a participant that can be questioned by who/what
c) It can occur in a wh-cleft.
When is an OC attributive?
a) When it adds information about its referent.
b) When it occurs in post-verbal position.
c) When it occurs with a copular or linking verb.
What is “The girl asked me” in “The girl asked me what time it was”?
a) The superordinate clause
b) The matrix clause
c) The embedded clause
What is the typical syntactic function of “that” as a subordinator?
a) Pronoun
b) Direct object
c) Complementizer
Which of the following three elements cannot control clausal complements?
a) noun
b) adjective
c) determiner
Which factors favor the omission of “that” as subordinator?
a) verbs like “think” and “say” as main verbs
b) when the subject in the main clause is different from that in the that-clause
c) when there is a noun rather than a pronoun as subject of the that-clause
What is recursive embedding?
a) When there are several embedded clauses in a sentence.
b) When there is a non-prototypical case of embedding.
c) When there are several embedded clauses, each within the previous one.
What is a catenative verb?
a) A verb that controls a finite complement.
b) A verb that controls a non-finite complement.
c) A verb that can control either a finite or a non-finite complement with no significant semantic change.
Which of the following verbs does NOT control past participial clauses?
a) need
b) have
c) write
What do ing-clauses tend to express?
a) potential situations
b) factual situations
c) events in which the end-point is included.
Which of the following is in itself a non-finite verbal form?
Locks
Locked
Will lock
Locking
What type of unit is a supplementive unit?
A matrix clause with subsidiary information.
A subordinate clause but not embedded.
An embedded clause but not subordinate.
An independent clause with no main verb.
What does an abbreviated clause typically consist of?
A subject and a finite operator.
A subject, a finite operator and a pronoun.
A pronominal subject and an abbreviated verb.
Yes/no plus the subject and an elliptic clause.
Which of the following is NOT a clause element?
Predicator
Prepositional object
Goal complement
Prepositional complement
Which are the primary verbs?
Be, have and do.
Modals and semi-modals.
Every single verb except lexical verbs.
Be and have.
Which of the following is an assertive word?
Anything
Still
Ever
Much
Transferred negation consists in...
Displacing the negative element from its logical place in the reported clause to negate the verb in the main clause.
Displacing the negative element from its logical place in the main clause to negate the verb in the reported clause.
Transferring the negative element to an informationally relevant position.
Transferring the negative element to the theme position.
What types of verb may require locative elements?
Transitive verbs
Copular verbs
Intransitive verbs
All of the above.
Which of the following is a prototypical realization of the subject function?
A nominal group
An adjectival group
A prepositional phrase
A clause
What is anticipatory “it”?
It is a structurally empty subject
It is a semantically empty pronoun
It is a linguistically empty object
It is a dummy constituent of the predicateIt is a dummy constituent of the predicate
Which of the following general statements is true?
A pronoun follows a preposition of a prepositional verb.
A pronoun follows the particle of a phrasal verb.
A particle in phrasal verbs is unstressed.
A preposition of a prepositional verb is stressed.
Which of the following statements is FALSE?
In idiomatic phrasal verbs the particle is usually analyzed as part of the verb.
In free combinations in which the adverb particle is directional, the particle is analyzed as Complement.
With non-directional meanings, the adverbial particle is inseparable from the verb.
With non-directional meanings, the adverbial particle can be fronted.
Which of the following verbs do NOT typically lead us to specify some characteristic of the Direct Object?
Stay
Find
Make
Appoint
Which adjuncts reflect the subjective or objective attitude of the speaker towards the content and sometimes also towards the addressee?
Epistemic stance adjuncts.
Evaluative adjuncts.
Evidential adjuncts.
Style and domain adjuncts.
Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A clause consists of one or more groups.
A group consists of one or more phrases..
A group consists of one or more words.
A word consists of one or more morphemes.
What is the typical realization of a PP modifier?
Adjective
Noun
Adverb
Preposition
What is “towards Toledo” in “I rode a horse all night towards Toledo”?
A prepositional complement
An adjunct
A locative complement
A goal complement
Which clause function largely determines its structure?
The subject
The predicator
The operator
The set of objects and complements
What is “You” in “You were bought a lot of drinks last night”?
Attribute
Circumstance
Recipient
Beneficiary
“Supplementives” are:
Units that are set o from the main clause by a comma or a pause.
Reduced clauses of means, time or location.
Another term for verbless clauses.
Non-finite clauses which are subsidiary in meaning to the matrix clause
