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Question 1 of 35
1. Question
1 pointsComplete the sentence.
- The word "dog" is a (noun).
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no__
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Question 2 of 35
2. Question
1 pointsComplete the sentence.
- The word "kick" is a (verb).
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Question 3 of 35
3. Question
1 pointsComplete the sentence.
- The word "under" is a (preposition).
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prepos_____
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Question 4 of 35
4. Question
1 pointsComplete the sentence.
- The word "the" is a (determiner).(See hint)
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deter_____
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Question 5 of 35
5. Question
1 pointsComplete the sentence.
- Another word for "determiner" is (specifier).
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Question 6 of 35
6. Question
1 pointsComplete the sentence.
- A specifier (or a determiner) attaches to a (noun).
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n___
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Question 7 of 35
7. Question
1 pointsComplete the sentence.
- The word "slowly" is an (adverb).
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adv___
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Question 8 of 35
8. Question
1 pointsComplete the sentence.
- The word "that"is a determiner, or (specifier).
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s_______
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Question 9 of 35
9. Question
1 pointsComplete the sentence.
- The word "small" is an (adjective).
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ad_______
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Question 10 of 35
10. Question
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- The word "extremely" is a kind of (adverb).
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ad____
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Question 11 of 35
11. Question
1 pointsComplete the sentence.
- The word "sleep" may be a verb or a (noun).
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Question 12 of 35
12. Question
1 pointsComplete the sentence.
- Verbs indicate some kind of (action).
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a____n
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Question 13 of 35
13. Question
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- We can think of nouns as (names) for things.
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Question 14 of 35
14. Question
1 pointsComplete the sentence.
- The study of sound in language is called (phonology).
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ph______y
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Question 15 of 35
15. Question
1 pointsComplete the sentence.
- A more scientific word meaning "grammar" is (syntax).
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Question 16 of 35
16. Question
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- The study of meaning in language is often referred to as (semantics).
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se_______
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Question 17 of 35
17. Question
1 pointsComplete the sentence.
- The adverb "clumsily" modifies a (verb).
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v___
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Question 18 of 35
18. Question
1 pointsComplete the sentence.
- The adverb "very" may modify an (adjective).
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a_______e
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Question 19 of 35
19. Question
1 pointsComplete the sentence.
- "Most students passed" means more than (half) the students passed.
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h___
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Question 20 of 35
20. Question
1 pointsComplete the sentence.
- We assume that a word contains phonological, syntactic, and (semantic) information.
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Question 21 of 35
21. Question
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- Part of a verb's syntactic information will be about the number of (noun) phrases it needs.
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Question 22 of 35
22. Question
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- The English word "girl" needs a det (erminer), also known as a spec (ifier).
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Question 23 of 35
23. Question
1 pointsComplete the sentence.
- The sentence "I saw boy" is bad because the (noun) needs a specifier.
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Question 24 of 35
24. Question
1 pointsComplete the sentence.
- In the sentence "This slightly dirty book is half price", the (adverb) "slightly" modifies the (adjective) "dirty".
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ad____ ad_______
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Question 25 of 35
25. Question
1 pointsComplete the sentence.
- According to linguists, "pen" is a noun but "that pen" is a noun (phrase).
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ph____
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Question 26 of 35
26. Question
1 pointsComplete the sentence.
- "Under the book" is a prepositional (phrase).
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p_____
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Question 27 of 35
27. Question
1 pointsComplete the sentence.
- In the prepositional phrase "after the class", the preposition is " (after)".
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a____
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Question 28 of 35
28. Question
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- In the sentence "I saw three boys studying quietly during recess" the specifier is " (three, 3)".
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Question 29 of 35
29. Question
1 pointsComplete the sentence.
- In the sentence "My pet hamster suddenly jumped out of the window", the adverb is " (suddenly)".
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Question 30 of 35
30. Question
1 pointsComplete the sentence.
- In the sentence "My pet hamster suddenly jumped out of the window", the specifiers are " (my)" and "the".
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Question 31 of 35
31. Question
1 pointsComplete the sentence.
- In the sentence "My pet hamster jumped suddenly out of the window", " (pet)" may be acting as an adjective.
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Question 32 of 35
32. Question
1 pointsComplete the sentence.
- In the sentence "My crazy hamster ran desperately up the curtains", the preposition is " (up)".
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Question 33 of 35
33. Question
1 pointsComplete the sentence.
- In the sentence "The snake disappeared down the hole", the preposition is " (down)".
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Question 34 of 35
34. Question
1 pointsComplete the sentence.
- In the sentence "John gave Mary that book", the determiner is " (that)".
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Question 35 of 35
35. Question
1 pointsComplete the sentence.
- In the sentence "Taro placed my hamster carefully in the box", the adverb is " (carefully)".
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