EN 2710 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Predicative Expression, Sentence Clause Structure, Mass Noun
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Homework type questions: identify whether following noun is count or non-count, give structural proof, draw phase structure trees. (more practice) Homework type questions: indicate whether following adjective can be used attributively and/or predicatively. Provide example sentence: what is odd about the word certain , draw phase structure trees. (more practice) Pronoun subclasses (review not sure if on test) What are lexical verbs distinguished for? (five subcategories) What other category can they be distinguished for? (two new subcategories) Homework type questions: determine whether the verb is stative or non-stative, provide evidence. Auxiliary subclasses (review not sure if on test) Draw a tree diagram of an auxiliary verb phrase. Show an example of using an adverb in two different contexts/subclasses. Homework type questions: state if the following type of adverb is correct. Explain the usage of each type of preposition. Discuss sentences with both do and an intransitive preposition. Draw a tree diagram of a preposition phrase of both categories.
