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Syntactic Theory » Exercises » for Traditional Grammar

Syntactic Theory


Exercises for Traditional Grammar

Like in all other modules of ELLO, the exercises in this section are grouped thematically. There are three levels of difficulty, marked by different colors:

  • green: easy
  • orange: moderate
  • red: difficult


Basic Units of Syntactic Analysis

  • Exercise for identifying word boundaries
  • Syntactic rules
  • Identify what causes ungrammaticality
  • Identify nouns
  • Diagnostic environments for subclasses of nouns
  • Identify pronouns
    Solution to the exercise 'Identify pronouns'
  • Assign part of speech labels

Constituent Structure

  • Identify structural ambiguities
  • Find constituent brackets
  • Internal structure of NP
  • Internal structure of VP
  • Assign phrasal categories

Grammatical Functions

  • Construct sentences
  • Identify grammatical functions
  • Assign grammatical functions
  • determine generalized grammatical functions

Relative Clauses

  • A set of excercises to be solved on paper
  • Restrictive vs. non-restrictive relative clauses
  • Identify parts of a relative clause

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