29 Questions
What is one way of defining grammar?
Describing the structure of phrases and sentences to account for all the grammatical sequences in a language
Which of the following is NOT considered a part of speech in traditional grammar?
Interjections
What is the role of adverbs in grammar?
Describe verbs by adding 'ly', describe adjectives, and describe other adverbs
Which part of speech connects and links ideas in a sentence?
Conjunctions
What do prepositions provide information about in a sentence?
Time and place
In traditional grammar, what do articles act as besides describing nouns?
Adverbs
What is the prescriptive approach to grammar based on?
The Latin language
Which part of speech connects and links ideas in a sentence?
Conjunctions
What do articles act as besides describing nouns in traditional grammar?
Determiners
Which tense is used when we want to refer to the past in English?
Past tense
What is one way of defining grammar according to the text?
The study of sentence structure
Which pronouns are considered in the point of view category?
First person and third person pronouns
What does the prescriptive approach to grammar focus on?
Setting grammar rules for the proper use of English
What is grammatical gender mainly about?
Masculine and feminine nouns in other languages
'The dog quickly followed the girl.' falls into which category of linguistic analysis?
[NP [Art[The] N[dog]] VP[adv. [quickly] V [followed] NP[Art[the] N[girl]]]
What is the smallest meaningful unit in a language?
Morpheme
Which category of morpheme includes nouns, verbs, and adjectives?
Lexical morpheme
What type of morpheme includes conjunctions, prepositions, and articles?
Functional morpheme
Which type of morpheme must be attached to a word?
Bound morpheme
Which category of bound morpheme involves changing word class and meaning?
Derivational morpheme
What type of bound morpheme includes 's', 'ed', and 'ing'?
Inflectional morpheme
Which of the following represents a derivational morpheme?
unhappy
What is an example of a class-maintaining derivational morpheme?
pinkish
Which of the following is an inflectional morpheme used on nouns?
boys
What is a contractible morpheme according to the text?
I’ll
Which of the following represents a bound root?
receive
What is the difference between inflectional and derivational morphemes?
Inflectional morphemes are always suffixes, while derivational morphemes can be prefixes or suffixes.
What is morphology the study of?
Word structure and word formation.
What are free morphemes categorized into?
's and s.
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