To _____ did you give the present? This is the correct pronoun.
What is "to whom"?
100
Himself, herself, themselves are examples of what?
What are reflexive pronouns?
100
This occurs when an adverb, an adverbial, or "not" is placed between the particle "to" and the bare infinitive form of a verb.
What is a split infinitive?
100
This subordinate clause is often introduced by a subordinating conjunction (e.g. when, because, after, if, although) which modify the verb of the main clause.
What is adverbial clause?
100
An example of proverbial ___________ show that you misinterpreted the function of some of the words.
For example, "The man who hunts ducks out occasionally".
What is "garden path sentence"?
200
Not all adjectives form comparatives and superlatives, for semantic reasons. Adjectives must be this in order to have degrees of comparison?
What is gradable?
200
"Many" is an example of what determiner?
What is post determiner (primary quantifier?)
200
this lexical category can describe where a squirrel can go with respect to a tree
What are prepositions?
200
These three tests are used to figure out if a group of words is a constituent
What are substitution, stand alone, and movement tests?
200
"Yesterday afternoon I watched the television, which was tuned to Friends" is an example of what clause?
What is nonrestrictive?
300
Her interest in grammar was sheer. This is an example of this syntactic position of adjectives.
What is predicative?
300
"He must not have been doing yoga right to have twisted his neck like that"
This is an example of what modal auxiliary?
What is epistemic?
300
This occur between the determiner and the head noun, like adjectives. They do not behave like adjectives morphologically and they can appear only in attributive position.
What are noun modifiers?
300
In the sentence "We studied because we had the test the next day", "because" is an example of what?
What is subordinating conjunction?
300
Sometimes called nominal clauses, these are dependent clauses that fill an NP position.
What are complementizer clauses?
400
We gave Sue the cookies is an example of this verb category
What is ditransitive?
400
Call up, ask out, put up with, and freak out are examples of these. All of the parts contribute to the verb's meaning which is different from the meaning of the verb alone.
What are phrasal verbs?
400
There are no definitive morphological criteria for this. Often they end in the derivational suffix "ly". Words that end with this derivational suffix can be adjectives.
What are adverbs?
400
In the sentence "The perplexed students reread the chapter over the weekend", there are these many different lexical categories (count each node).
What are five (determiner, adjective, noun, verb, preposition)?
400
Seeing the slang we used in the dorm on a class handout was a bit disconcerting. "Seeing" in this sentence is an example of what?
What is a gerund phrase?
500
We are nice. "Are" is an example of this verb
What is linking verb?
500
These two types of determiners cannot co-occur with members of their own class. Example: your the knowledge
What are predeterminers and central determiners?
500
This test whether a verb takes a direct object.
What is the transitivity?
500
all constituents, no matter what their form, function to modify nouns are.....
What are adjectivals?
500
Noam Chomsky is often compared to this modern day thinker