英语语法学练习66.docxVIP

For personal use only in study and research; not for commercial use 袀 Decide whether each of them is true or false. 1. 2. 芇 The grammar of the English language is organized into five ranks: the sentence, the clause, the phrase, the word and the morpheme. 3. 4. 袂 The grammar of Standard English is much more stable and uniform than its pronunciation and vocabulary. 5. 6. 蒂 Descriptive books on English grammar aim to tell people what grammatical rules should be followed while they are using English. 7. 8. 荿 Semantics is the study of the principles governing how words can be assembled into sentences. 9. 10. 羇 The head of a phrase is, roughly, the most important element in the phrase, the one that defines what sort of phrase it is. 11. 12. 袃 The nouns make up by far the smallest category in terms of number of dictionary entries, and in texts we find fewer nouns than words of any other category. 13. 14. 薀 The most distinctive grammatical property of verbs is their inflection. 15. 16. 蝿 The definite article “the”marks a noun phrase as indefinite. 17. 18. 螈 The bases of words can stand alone as whole words whereas affixes can’t. 19. 20. 羅 Prefixes follow the base to which they attach, and suffixes precede it. 21. 22. 羂 Negation is marked by individual words (such as not, no, never) or by affixes within a word (such as n ’t, un, non). 23. 24. 膈 Grammar is the structural system of a language. 25. 26. 蒈 Sometimes present progressive can be used to express a future action. 27. 28. 螂 The word is the smallest meaningful element of speech. 29. 30. 肁 In terms of the different combinations of clause elements, English clauses can be classified into seven basic types. 31. 32. 薇 The principle of grammatical concord refers to the rule that the verb must match its subject in meaning instead of in number. 33. 34. 羄 Genitive nouns are mostly used as post determiners. 35. 36. 螄 Auxiliaries fall into two categories: primary auxiliaries and modal auxiliaries. 37. 38. 腿 Aspect is a grammatical