ENG222 Tma Solutions
1. What happens when a declarative sentence is changed into a Yes-No question?
There is substitution of an element in the structure
There is movement of an element in the structure
—>> There is inversion of an element in the structure
There is deletion of an element in the structure
2. Chomsky introduced____ to classify the four major lexical categories.
D-structure
S-structure
logical form
—>> binary distinctive features
3. The sentence: John’s car is not a car ____.
—>> is contradictory and makes no consistent assertion
is perfectly well-formed
is fully acceptable in every respect
is intuitively grammatical
4. ____ theory is a theory of what constitutes a possible phrase in natural language.
—>> X- bar
Projections
Z-bar
Theta
5. Identify the odd item from options lettered A-D.
Case assigners
—>> Case theory
Case Filter
Case Uniqueness
6. How appropriate or felicitous would a sentence be in a given context is within the purview of ____.
intuition
competence
—>> performance
oratory
7. Identify the ODD item among types of Transformational Rules.
insertion rules
movement rules
—>> scalar rules
deletion rules
8. Which of the following assertions is INCORRECT?
Phrase Structure rules are not powerful enough to provide an adequate description of the syntax of English
—>> Phrase Structure rules are relatively comprehensive to Transformational Grammar
A context-free PSG could account for the differences between transitive and intransitive verbs
A context-free PSG could not express the significant likeness between transitive and intransitive verbs
9. All of the following knowledge is true of the native speaker of English EXCEPT ____
know when two sentences are paraphrases
when a single sentence has two different meanings
when a change in word- order results in a change of meaning
—>> when a change in word- order results in grammaticality
10. An Adverbial Phrase is a group of words that ____.
—>> modifies a verb
has a subject and a predicate
modifies a noun
modifies other words
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