PRACTICE

Grammatical units
1. In terms of formation, the phrase ‘a flower of great beauty’ in the sentence ‘The
rose is a flower of great beauty’ is___________.
2. In term of formation, the phrase ‘for her own delight’ in the sentence ‘She sings
for her own delight” is______
3. In term of functions, the phrase “very cowardly” in the sentence “That was a very
cowardly act” is_____
4. How many free morphemes are there in the word ‘lady-killer’s’?
5. What is the derivational morpheme in the word “indirectness”?
6. What is the inflectional morpheme in the word ‘booking’ (n)?
7. Coordinative conjunctions are used in__________
8. How many independent clauses are there in the one English compound at least?
9. In terms of information, the word ‘operational’ in the sentence ‘The machine was
still operational although it had been damaged’ is formed by?
10. In the sentence “Because I didn’t know what to do, I played a game of chess’, the
subordinate clause is ________
11- : True or False
11. Endocentric phrases share the same syntactic functions as the functions of the
head.
12. Exocentric phrases don't have the different syntactic functions from the functions
of the head.
13. There isn’t any adjective as a head in an adjectival phrase.
14. Inflectional morphemes can change the part of speech of the roots
15. Denotative meaning of one word is not easily found in the dictionary.
16. When an English adverb is expanded, the new one is called ‘an adverbial phrase’.
17. The sentence ‘If I have free time and I have enough money, I will visit my
grandmother in France’ is a complex sentence.
18. Subordinators ared to connect two independent clauses
 19. Coordinators in English compound sentences sometimes can be replaced with
punctuation marks.
20. ‘Embedded sentence’ is the traditional term referring to “a sentence within a
sentence" in English.

Syntactic function
1. “Aunty Ann’ in the sentence ‘The young lady has passed Aunty Ann the salt’
2. ‘A new job’ in the sentence ‘she is looking for a new job’?
3. ‘Whether he will come to my party or not’ in the sentence ‘I am wondering
whether he will come to my party or not’?
4. ‘Many students’ parents’ in the sentence ‘In my class at this moment are many
students’ parents’?
5. "That my sister doesn’t love him’ in the sentence ‘The truth is that my sister
doesn’t love him’?
6. ‘To the office’ in the sentence ‘Tom walked to the office after breakfast’?
7. ‘Sound very good’ in the sentence ‘Their ideas in the meeting sound very good’?
8. ‘What he is saying’ in the sentence ‘i don’t understand what he is saying’?
9. ‘The father of this company’ in the sentence ‘He has become the father of this
company after many successive efforts’?
10. ‘Giving us permission to join the class late’ in the sentence ‘this is a special reason
giving us permission to join the class late’?
11. ‘He bought for her’ in the sentence ‘The house he bought for her is very
expensive’?
12. ‘There’ in the sentence ‘There comes a bus!’?
13. ‘‘Because I am extremely busy with my work in the office” in the sentence “I
rarely phone my parents these days because I am extremely busy with my work in
the office’?
14. ‘It’ in the sentence ‘It is sad receiving the bad news from him’?
15. “It” in the sentence ‘It will take me 30 minutes to complete this Quiz’?
 16. ‘Is how to help her improve her own life’ in the sentence “What I meant here is
how to help her improve her own life’?
17. ‘His special girlfriend’ in the sentence ‘The man wished to make Laura his special
girlfriend’?
18. ‘To hurt him’ in the sentence ‘I don’t wanted to hurt him but need to tell the truth’
19. ‘To travel around the world’ in the sentence ‘My wish is to travel around the
world’?
20. ‘As long as you love me’ in the sentence “As long as you love me, I won’t study
abroad’
Chọn các chức năng phù hợp dưới đây cho các phần trong câu
a. Subject
b. Predicate
c. Direct object
d. Indirect object
e. Preposition object
f. Predicative
g. Object complement
h. Attribute
i. Adjunct
j. Empty subject
k. Introductory subject
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Verb
1. In term of expressing states, the verb ‘is’ in the sentence ‘She is at home’ is
2. In term of expressing the grammatical category, the verb ‘is’ in the sentence ‘She
is talking to me at the moment’ is
 3. In term of expressing the link between the subject and other parts of the sentence,
the verb ‘is’ in the sentence ‘She is happy when talking to her parents’ is
4. The verb ‘is’ in the sentence ‘She is to check her parent’s health this afternoon”
5 -> 20: T or F
5. The verb ‘talk’ in the sentence ‘I want to talk to him’ is as non- finite verb.
6. The finite verb cannot show the tense in the sentence
7. In all cases the helping verb can show tenses only.
8. The auxiliary verb can emphasize the main verb in the sentence.
9. Some modals can be used as main verbs and auxiliary verbs.
10. The verb ‘make’ is an example of linking verbs in English
11. The copular verbs can’t go with adjectives
12. Some verbs in English can be used as a transitive verb and an intransitive verb
13. Transitive verbs can be used in the passive sentences
14. State verbs can be used with the progressive aspect with a view to emphasizing the
meaning of the main verb.
15. In terms of structure, the phrasal verb ‘run out of’ is called a two-word phrasal
verb.
16. Semantically, figurative phrasal verb is the phrasal verb in which the meaning of
the adverb particle is changed completely
17. Among seven forms of verb in English, there are 2 forms in which the verbs are
considered the finite verbs
18. The verb ‘leave’ in the sentence ‘Let me leave now!’ plays the function of the
precative.
19. In the sentence ‘These are my running shoes’ running is a present participle
20. In the sentence ‘what I like is dancing’ ‘ dancing’ is a gerund.

Review for all parts

1. Which of the following perspectives on grammar can we use to explain whether
the sentence ‘She has nothing to do no longer is grammatically correct or
incorrect?
 2. Based on the knowledge of immediate constituent grammar, how can you explain
the ambiguity of the following sentence ‘He said he will visit me on Sunday?
3. Based on the knowledge of grammatical units you have learnt, what are the
differences between ‘full’ and ‘-ful’?
4. In ter of formation, the phrase ‘by shutting the door’ in the sentence ‘He answered
me by shutting the door’ is
5. Structurally, how many types of sentences are there in the English language?
6. In terms if syntactic function, the phrase ‘with lovely behavior’ in the sentence
‘He always treats me with lovely behavior’ is
7. The word ‘opening’ in the sentence ‘He wants to know what is inside by opening
the bag’ is
8. Explain the use of each underlined verb in the following sentences
a. The girls do the homework carefully.
b. They don’t like to go out with him
c. Does he live near here?
d. She does love me
e. So do I
9. Make a sentence in which the object is expressed by a clause.
10. Make a sentence in which the predicative is expressed by a clause
11. Make a sentence in which the adjunct is expressed by a phrase
12. Make a sentence in which the attribute is expressed by a phrase
13. Draw a tree diagram of the following sentence: ‘The very young girl sent this song
to me on my birthday.

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