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What is the primary focus of syntax?

What does a complement do in a phrase?

Linguistics II: Syntax

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What does a complement do in a phrase?
Provides necessary information about the head
Adds emotion to a sentence
Expresses optional detail
Replaces the head
2
What is the primary focus of syntax?
The pronunciation of sentences
The structure of sentences
The meaning of words
The history of language
3
What kind of structure does a syntactic tree diagram show?
Temporal sequence
Sound relationships
Emotional tone
Hierarchical phrase relationships
4
Why is syntax important to study?
It teaches cultural facts
It helps create new alphabets
It deepens our understanding of sentence structure and grammar
It explains word origins
5
What is the “head” of a phrase?
The first word in the sentence
The central word that determines the type of phrase
The longest word in the phrase
A synonym of the subject
6
What does the XP rule represent?
A type of tree diagram
A general phrase structure rule
A formula for word meaning
A rule for sentence stress
7
In syntax, what is a phrase?
A punctuation mark
A single word
A dictionary entry
A group of words functioning as a unit
8
Which of the following is a specifier in a noun phrase (NP)?
its
Book
The
in
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What does a syntactic rule describe?
Spelling conventions
Word etymology
How words combine to form phrases and sentences
Rules for stress and intonation
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In the phrase “eat an apple,” what is the complement?
an apple
eat
apple
an