LING202 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Nonfinite Verb, French Fries

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING202
• Professor: Tsai Ya- Ping

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Constituency apply at least two constituency tests and determine whether a group of words in a sentence is a constituent. If it is a constituent, say what category it is. > john read it: question and answer. Ex: sam asked if he could play soccer. > constituent because it links pizza and fries together with and: movement. > in her class, melissa slept: move as a unit, deletion. Complement: expressions that complete a predicate, required by a predicate: he put some salt in the soup. In the soup is the comple(cid:373)e(cid:374)t, it (cid:373)ust (cid:271)e there to (cid:272)o(cid:373)plete the phrase. Identify case (nominative or accusative: nonfinite: a verb not showing tense, mostly infinitives and participles, ex: i hate camping, ex: i want to go there, we ate our roasted marshmallows. Finite: a verb that has a subject, this means that it can be the main verb in a sentence.