LIN 316_ ĐỀ 1
1. (0.2 Point)
What kind of sentence is the following? “IT WAS JOHN WHO WORE HIS BEST SUIT
TO THE DANCE LAST NIGHT.”
*A. Cleft sentence
B. Pseudo-cleft sentence
C. Compound sentence
D. Compound-complex sentence
2. (0.2 Point)
What is the deep structure of the following sentence? “What did you
do last night?”
A. SVC
B. SVOC
C. SVO
*D. SVOA
3. (0.2 Point)
What is the function of the underlined part in the sentence? “IT DOESN’T MATTER
WHAT YOU DO.”
A. Real subject
B. Existential subject
*C. Extra-posed subject
D. Fake subject
4. (0.2 Point)
What is the function of the underlined part in the sentence? “I FIND IT EXTREMELY
HARD SPEAKING ENGLISH FLUENTLY.”
A. Real object
B. Existential subject
C. Extra-posed subject
*D. Extra-posed object
5. (0.2 Point)
What causes structural ambiguity in the following sentence? “Bill sold the invisible man's
hat.”
A. sold
*B. invisible
C. man’s
D. hat
6. (0.2 Point)
Conjunctions are lexical words.
TRUE
*FALSE
7. (0.2 Point)
Complements in phrases are optional.
*TRUE
FALSE
8. (0.2 Point)
Inverted sentences are transformed structures.
*TRUE
FALSE
9. (0.2 Point)
Linking verbs allow an adverbial as objects.
TRUE
*FALSE
10. (0.2 Point)
The adverbial in the sentence “They lived in the nineteenth century.” is compulsory.
*TRUE
FALSE
11. (0.20 Point)
The sentence “She thinks people look down on her due to her inability to speak English
fluently.” contains a….
A. phrasal verb
B. prepositional verb
C. transitive phrasal verb
*D. phrasal-prepositional verb
12. (0.20 Point)
The finite verb in sentence “He put the knife on the table” is…………
A. an intensive verb
B. a mono-transitive verb
C. a di-transitive verb
*D. a complex transitive verb
13. (0.20 Point)
The sentence “Glancing up at my tired face, she asked, in a rather grating voice, how I was
feeling.” consists of…
A. two non-finite clauses and one finite clause
*B. two finite clauses and one nonfinite clause
C. two subordinate clauses and one main clause
D. two embedded clauses and one independent clause
14. (0.20 Point)
What type of clause is the underlined in the following sentence? “They talked about the
party where they had met their boss.”
A. Noun clause
*B. Adjective clause
C. Adverbial clause
D. Subordinate clause
15. (0.20 Point)
What is the function of the noun clause in the following sentence? “Please tell me why you
did that”.
A. Adjective complement
*B. Direct object
C. Subjective complement
D. Objective complement
SHORT ANSWER
16. (0.3 Point)
Identify the function of each constituent in the following sentence: “I find working here
exciting.”
SVOC
17. (0.30 Point)
Identify the function of each constituent in the following sentence: How well she sings!”
ASV
18. (0.30 Point)
Identify the function of each constituent in the following sentence: Never have I heard such a
beautiful voice.”
A Aux S V O
19. (0.30 Point)
Identify the function of each constituent in the following sentence: Who do you love most in
your family?”
O Aux S V A A
20. (0.30 Point)
Identify the function of each constituent in the following sentence:
“He told me he didn’t get the contract.”
S V Oi Od
21. (0.30 Point)
Identify the function of each constituent in the following sentence:
“Mrs. Pam Weldon reported that her baby nearly slipped under the wheels of a car.”
SVO
22. (0.30 Point)
Identify the function of each constituent in the following sentence:
“My husband, who is on a business trip to Roma all this week, sent me this postcard.”
S V Oi Od
23. (0.30 Point)
What is the syntactic function of the underlined part?
“She spread the news that Joanne had been fired.”
Object Complement
24. (0.30 Point)
What is the syntactic function of the underlined part?
“I’m afraid that I can’t make it.”
Adjective Complement
25. (0.30 Point)
What type of phrase is the underlined part? “The very best is yet to come.”
Noun phrase
SHORT ESSAY
26. (4.000 Points)
1) Explain the ambiguity of the following sentence and give an unambiguous paraphrase for each
of the meanings.
“She defended the man she loved with all her heart”
“With all her heart” makes the sentence ambiguous.
Meaning 1: She loves the man with all her heart.
Meaning 2: She defended the man with all her heart.
(2) Draw a tree diagram for the following sentence.
“Jacques thought that Menendez met Julia in Rangoon.”
(3) Use a tree diagram to depict the S-structure of the following sentence.
“Why did Marvin make that claim?”
Câu 2 và 3 em sẽ vẽ diagram bằng tay rồi gửi qua cô
