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"really?"
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1 Syntax 2 direct object
3 Syntactic Categories 4 utterances = speech act
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Terms in this set (161)
Syntax Part of grammar that represents a speakers
knowledge of sentences and their structures
, Rules of Syntax Understanding how to combine words into
phrases; phrases into sentences
Rules of Syntax: Correct Word Understanding grammatical vs. ungrammatical
Order
Rules of Syntax: Meaning Understanding the meaning of a particular
groups of words and how to arrange the group
of words
Syntactic Categories A group of expressions that can substitute for
one another without the loss of grammaticiality.
Noun Phrase (NP) The name of a syntactic category that consists of
proper names, pronouns, and all other
expressions with the same syntactic distribution.
Determiner words that introduce noun phrases, articles such
as "A, The"
Verb Phrase The name of a syntactic category that is always a
verb; (some times a preposition will come before
a verb)
Demonstrative this, that, these, those
every, each - counting words
Auxiliary (verb) have, had, be, was, were [to be verbs]
Modals can, could, shall, should, will, would, may, might,
must - verbs that express mood or tense
subject who or what the sentence is about
direct object receives the action of the verb
Already Graded A+ UPDATE 2025|2026!!
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Practice questions for this set
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"really?"
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1 Syntax 2 direct object
3 Syntactic Categories 4 utterances = speech act
Don't know?
Terms in this set (161)
Syntax Part of grammar that represents a speakers
knowledge of sentences and their structures
, Rules of Syntax Understanding how to combine words into
phrases; phrases into sentences
Rules of Syntax: Correct Word Understanding grammatical vs. ungrammatical
Order
Rules of Syntax: Meaning Understanding the meaning of a particular
groups of words and how to arrange the group
of words
Syntactic Categories A group of expressions that can substitute for
one another without the loss of grammaticiality.
Noun Phrase (NP) The name of a syntactic category that consists of
proper names, pronouns, and all other
expressions with the same syntactic distribution.
Determiner words that introduce noun phrases, articles such
as "A, The"
Verb Phrase The name of a syntactic category that is always a
verb; (some times a preposition will come before
a verb)
Demonstrative this, that, these, those
every, each - counting words
Auxiliary (verb) have, had, be, was, were [to be verbs]
Modals can, could, shall, should, will, would, may, might,
must - verbs that express mood or tense
subject who or what the sentence is about
direct object receives the action of the verb
