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The rules of _______ comprise the ways in which the many sentences of a language may be generated by combining and recombining basic elements in certain allowable sequences.
syntax
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The basic elements of a sentence are its ________.
constituents
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The major constituents of a sentence are its _____ and _______.
noun phrase, verb phrase, or subject and predicate
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The ___ ____ is a basic sentence constituent which is comprised of a head word, the noun, and a determiner, which preceds and signals the noun.
noun phrase
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Optional constituents in elaborated noun phrases are known as ________.
Adjectives
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A person place or thing.
Noun
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This semantic feature of a noun indicates whether the noun carries the feature of humanness.
human/nonhuman
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This semantic feature of a noun indicates whether the noun indicates an entity that is living.
animate/inanimate *plants and trees still inanimate.
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This semantic feature of a noun indicates entities which can be seen or touched.
concrete/abstract
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This semantic feature of a noun indicates things that can be counted.
count/noncount (or mass); such as milk is noncount
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This semantic feature of a noun indicates particular people, places, things.
common/proper
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This semantic feature of a noun indicates if there is one or more than one.
singular/plural
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These are traditionally referred to as modifiers, serve to qualify, specify, quatify, rank or indicate relative proximity of the noun that follows.
Determiners
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These are an important and most frequently occurring group of determiners.
Articles
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An article such as; the, each, every, neither, either is __________.
Definite
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An article such as; a, an, some, any, another, and enough is __________.
nondefinite
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These include the forms this, that, these, and those.
Demonstratives
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These are determiners that refer to the number of items in a set.
Cardinals; one, two, few, many
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These include such words as first, second, third. As well as last, final, middle, next.
Ordinals
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Words such as more, most, less, least, fewer, that are used to describe two things are ______.
Comparatives
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Words such as more, most, less, least, fewer, that are used to describe two or more things are ________.
Superlatives
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These include just, only, even, several, all of, two of, a quarter of.
Prearticles
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This type of determiners add the meaning of possession to the sentence.
Genitives
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When used in a noun phrase an ________ serves as a "prenominal modifier" - a modifier that precedes nouns.
Adjective
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An ______ carries information which elaborates various aspects -size, condition, quality, age, shape, colore- of nounrs they precede.
Adjective
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A noun that precedes and modifies a noun is a ____ _____.
Noun adjunct
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A word or phrase which serves to modify a verb is an __________.
Adverbial
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Adjectives may be formed from nouns and verbs through the use of ____________ inflections
derivational
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The words a, an, and some represent articles which are marked _______.
- definite
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The distinction in applying a , an or some versus the is that the former forms are used to refer to ____ information whereas the latter form is used to encode _____ information.
new, old
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