Traditional Grammar: Parts of Speech

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What is one way of defining grammar?

  • Describing the structure of phrases and sentences to account for all the grammatical sequences in a language (correct)
  • Analyzing the emotional tone conveyed through language
  • Focusing on the punctuation and capitalization in writing
  • Identifying all the nouns and pronouns in a sentence

Which of the following is NOT considered a part of speech in traditional grammar?

  • Adverbs
  • Prepositions
  • Interjections (correct)
  • Conjunctions

What is the role of adverbs in grammar?

  • Connect different ideas and phrases in a sentence
  • Identify the subject and object of a sentence
  • Denote possession or ownership
  • Describe verbs by adding 'ly', describe adjectives, and describe other adverbs (correct)

Which part of speech connects and links ideas in a sentence?

<p>Conjunctions (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What do prepositions provide information about in a sentence?

<p>Time and place (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In traditional grammar, what do articles act as besides describing nouns?

<p>Adverbs (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the prescriptive approach to grammar based on?

<p>The Latin language (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which part of speech connects and links ideas in a sentence?

<p>Conjunctions (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What do articles act as besides describing nouns in traditional grammar?

<p>Determiners (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which tense is used when we want to refer to the past in English?

<p>Past tense (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is one way of defining grammar according to the text?

<p>The study of sentence structure (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which pronouns are considered in the point of view category?

<p>First person and third person pronouns (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does the prescriptive approach to grammar focus on?

<p>Setting grammar rules for the proper use of English (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is grammatical gender mainly about?

<p>Masculine and feminine nouns in other languages (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

'The dog quickly followed the girl.' falls into which category of linguistic analysis?

<p>[NP [Art[The] N[dog]] VP[adv. [quickly] V [followed] NP[Art[the] N[girl]]] (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the smallest meaningful unit in a language?

<p>Morpheme (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which category of morpheme includes nouns, verbs, and adjectives?

<p>Lexical morpheme (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What type of morpheme includes conjunctions, prepositions, and articles?

<p>Functional morpheme (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which type of morpheme must be attached to a word?

<p>Bound morpheme (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which category of bound morpheme involves changing word class and meaning?

<p>Derivational morpheme (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What type of bound morpheme includes 's', 'ed', and 'ing'?

<p>Inflectional morpheme (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following represents a derivational morpheme?

<p>unhappy (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is an example of a class-maintaining derivational morpheme?

<p>pinkish (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is an inflectional morpheme used on nouns?

<p>boys (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a contractible morpheme according to the text?

<p>I’ll (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following represents a bound root?

<p>receive (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the difference between inflectional and derivational morphemes?

<p>Inflectional morphemes are always suffixes, while derivational morphemes can be prefixes or suffixes. (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is morphology the study of?

<p>Word structure and word formation. (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are free morphemes categorized into?

<p>'s and s. (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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