Ch. 1
The practice of alternating between two or more languages or varieties of language in conversation.
What is code-switching?
A word or group of words that functions as a unit within the sentence
What is a phrase?
The part of the sentence that is filled by a noun phrase or other nominal and functions as the topic of the sentence.
What is the subject?
The first "slot" in every sentence pattern includes this.
What is the subject?
The base form of the verb, usually expressed with "to"
What is an infinitive?
The way people talk in everyday situations
What is descriptive grammar?
This type of word can be inflected for plurals and possessives.
What is a noun?
This type of phrase is a combination of a preposition and a nominal.
What is a prepositional phrase?
The ten sentence patterns are grouped according to this.
What are the (their) verb patterns?
A word that modifies a verb, an adjective, another adverb, or even a whole sentence.
What is an adverb?
Rules that have to be consciously learned.
What is prescriptive grammar?
This type of word is traditionally considered to be the action word in a sentence.
What is a verb?
Verbs, adjectives, nouns, and adverbs all belong to this class of words.
What is an open class?
The ten sentence pattern formulas are often altered to ask questions and form this type of sentence.
What is an interrogative sentence?
This type of clause is the subordinate clause of a sentence and is not complete sentence in itself.
What is a dependent clause?
The structure of sentences or the relationship of the parts of the sentence.
What is syntax?
The part of the sentence that includes the verb, its complements, and its modifiers.
What is the predicate?
A morpheme that is added to an open-class word, either to change its class or meaning.
What is a derivational affix?
The sentence - "The dancers rested" - uses this verb pattern
What is the intransitive verb pattern?
This type of sentence has two or more independent clauses.
What is a compound sentence?
This type of phrase has a noun headword along with its pre- and postnoun modifiers
What is a noun phrase?
Morphemes that are added to the open classes to change their grammatical role in some way.
What is an inflectional suffix?
The sentence - "The animals gave the new king their gifts" - follows this pattern.
What is Pattern IX (NP1 - transitive verb - NP2 - N3)?
This type of phrase is a combination of a preposition and a nominal.
What is a prepositional phrase?