Aspects Quiz 3

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.

The basic elements of a sentence are its ________.

The major constituents of a sentence are its _____ and _______.

The ___ ____ is a basic sentence constituent which is comprised of a head word, the noun, and a determiner, which preceds and signals the noun.

Optional constituents in elaborated noun phrases are known as ________.

A person place or thing.

This semantic feature of a noun indicates whether the noun carries the feature of humanness.

This semantic feature of a noun indicates whether the noun indicates an entity that is living.

This semantic feature of a noun indicates entities which can be seen or touched.

This semantic feature of a noun indicates things that can be counted.

This semantic feature of a noun indicates particular people, places, things.

This semantic feature of a noun indicates if there is one or more than one.

These are traditionally referred to as modifiers, serve to qualify, specify, quatify, rank or indicate relative proximity of the noun that follows.

These are an important and most frequently occurring group of determiners.

An article such as; the, each, every, neither, either is __________.

An article such as; a, an, some, any, another, and enough is __________.

These include the forms this, that, these, and those.

These are determiners that refer to the number of items in a set.

These include such words as first, second, third. As well as last, final, middle, next.

Words such as more, most, less, least, fewer, that are used to describe two things are ______.

Words such as more, most, less, least, fewer, that are used to describe two or more things are ________.

These include just, only, even, several, all of, two of, a quarter of.

This type of determiners add the meaning of possession to the sentence.

When used in a noun phrase an ________ serves as a "prenominal modifier" - a modifier that precedes nouns.

An ______ carries information which elaborates various aspects -size, condition, quality, age, shape, colore- of nounrs they precede.

A noun that precedes and modifies a noun is a ____ _____.

A word or phrase which serves to modify a verb is an __________.

Adjectives may be formed from nouns and verbs through the use of ____________ inflections

The words a, an, and some represent articles which are marked _______.

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.