ENG 303 Theory Question: English Syntax

300 Level  English Syntax And Lexis Practice exam questions and detailed answers. Download the answers in document format. Correct, detailed, and straightforward answers.

Questions:

Passage:

You probably want to know what the purpose of this course is and what you can expect to learn from it. An important purpose of the course is to explain how English is pronounced in England. The accent normally chosen as the standard for people learning the English spoken in England. If this was the only thing the course did, a more suitable title would have been “English Pronunciation.” However, at the comparatively advanced level at which this course is aimed, it is useful to present this information in the context of a general theory about speech sounds and how they are used in language; this theoretical context is called phonetics and phonology.

Why is it necessary to learn this theoretical background? A similar question arises in connection with grammar: at lower levels of study, one is concerned simply with setting out how to form grammatical sentences, but people who are going to work with the language at an advanced level—teachers or researchers—need the deeper understanding provided by the grammatical theory and related areas of linguistics. The theoretical material in the present course is necessary for anyone who needs to understand the principles regulating the use of sounds in spoken English.

Questions:

a) What part of speech does the word ‘advanced’ belong to, as used in sentence four?
b) What is the grammatical name of the underlined expression in sentence one?
c) What is its grammatical function?
d) What type of sentence is sentence one according to structure?
e) What is the type of conditional structure in sentence three?
f) What is the functional import of the fifth sentence?
g) What name is given to the word structure (or kind) in sentence six?
h) What is the word class of the word ‘understanding’ in sentence six?
i) Do a short morphemic analysis of the word ‘understanding’ in sentence six.
j) Form six more words from the underlined word in sentence two.

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