English Syntax

Question 1

English Syntax

`4subject

Answer 1

the person or thing the sentence is about.

Question 2

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predicate

Answer 2

makes a comment about the subject. It predicates.

Question 3

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referent

Answer 3

noun a pronoun refers to.

Question 4

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semantic role

Answer 4

the underlying relationship that a participant has with the main verb in a clause.

Question 5

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agent subject

Answer 5

doer of the action; acting deliberately; with intent.

Question 6

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causer subject

Answer 6

an animate being who acts without volition or an inanimate entity.

Question 7

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instrument subject

Answer 7

an inanimate entity which acts on someone or something or something else as an instrument.

Question 8

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experiencer subject

Answer 8

experiences a sensory perception or a psychological state.

Question 9

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lexicalization

Answer 9

the process of making a word to express a concept

Question 10

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psych-verb

Answer 10

expresses a mental state or event

Question 11

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patient subject

Answer 11

an entity to which things happen

Question 12

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described subject

Answer 12

described by information in the predicate

Question 13

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located subject

Answer 13

location is in the predicate

Question 14

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empty It

Answer 14

fills in for lack of semantically meaningful subject.

Question 15

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cataphoric It

Answer 15

semantic content is in a subsequent clause.

Question 16

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transitive verb

Answer 16

requires both a direct subject and one or more objects.

Question 17

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intransitive verb

Answer 17

does not have objects.

Question 18

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direct object

Answer 18

answers the question “What?”

Question 19

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indirect object

Answer 19

answers the question “To whom?” or “For whom?”

Question 20

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ditransitive verb

Answer 20

takes a subject and two objects.

Question 21

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monotransitive verb

Answer 21

takes only one; direct; object.

Question 22

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transitive

Answer 22

Subject + Verb + Direct Object

Question 23

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intransitive

Answer 23

Subject + Verb

Question 24

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ditransitive

Answer 24

Subject + Verb + Indirect Object + Direct Object

Question 25

# English Syntax copula

Answer 25

Subject + Verb + Subject Complement

Question 26

# English Syntax complex transitive

Answer 26

Subject + Verb + Direct Object + Object Complement

Question 27

# English Syntax determiner

Answer 27

a noun-modifier that expresses the reference of a noun or noun-phrase in the context; rather than attributes expressed by adjectives.

Question 28

# English Syntax article

Answer 28

introduces NP into discourse

Question 29

# English Syntax demonstrative

Answer 29

function words that reflect deixis

Question 30

# English Syntax deixis

Answer 30

phenomenon wherein understanding the meaning of certain words and phrases in an utterance requires contextual information.

Question 31

# English Syntax quantifying determiner

Answer 31

Ex - no; each; every; any

Question 32

# English Syntax genitive determiner

Answer 32

Ex - my; his; our

Question 33

# English Syntax interrogative determiner

Answer 33

Ex -which; whose; what

Question 34

# English Syntax predeterminer

Answer 34

Ex - all the players; half the students; one third the cost

Question 35

# English Syntax postdeterminer

Answer 35

Ex - the five players; a little money; every tenth person

Question 36

# English Syntax periphrastic genitive

Answer 36

Ex - top of the world; home of the brave

Question 37

# English Syntax double genitive

Answer 37

Ex - novel of Austen's; friend of Bill's

Question 38

# English Syntax group genitive

Answer 38

the dentist who lives around the corner's car

Question 39

# English Syntax collective nouns

Answer 39

Ex - team; choir; committee

Question 40

# English Syntax anaphoric reference

Answer 40

refers to topic already introduced into discourse

Question 41

# English Syntax reflexive pronouns

Answer 41

Ex - himself; themselves; myself

Question 42

# English Syntax possessive reflexive pronouns

Answer 42

Ex - his own bed; her own toys

Question 43

# English Syntax reciprocal pronouns

Answer 43

Ex - each other; one another

Question 44

# English Syntax demonstrative pronouns

Answer 44

Ex - this drives me crazy; that was really rude

Question 45

# English Syntax quantifying pronouns

Answer 45

Ex - All; Both; Everyone

Question 46

# English Syntax indefinite pronouns

Answer 46

Ex - someone; somebody; something; anyone

Question 47

# English Syntax partitive

Answer 47

Ex - six bottles of; four pounds of