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Chapter 3 Examples
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Example of a morphological frame tests nouns with plural affix -s | -cat cat-s -gerbil gerbil-s -ostrich ostrich-es |
| Example of a morphological frame tests nouns with possessive affix -s | -cat’s (tail) -gerbil’s (water bottle) -ostrich’s (nest) |
| Example of a morphological frame test for nouns with derivational endings | -creation, sensation, action, vision -ripeness, hopefulness, illness -denial, arrival acquittal |
| Example of a morphological frame test for nouns with derivational affixes (category selected) | pre- pre-history -ful hopeful -ian magician -ify beautify -ist artist -ize magnetize -y rainy, sunny |
| Example of a morphological frame test for nouns with derivational affixes (category derived) | -al approval -ant inhabitant -ian musician -ion detection -ity nationality -ment government -ness craziness |
| Example of a syntactic frame test for nouns (preposition) | to bed, on campus, for life |
| Example of a syntactic frame test for nouns (determiner) | a story, the cat, my wife |
| Example of a syntactic frame test for nouns (adjectives ) | outrageous lies, fluffy pancakes |
| Example of a morphological frame test for verb (progressive/continuous) | I was running, they were reading, we are listening |
| Example of a morphological frame test for verb (past) | I talked, Lee ran, they read, we listened. |
| Example of a morphological frame test for verb (prefect/completed) | She has spoken, they had gone, they have heard. |
| Example of a syntactic frame test for verb (model auxiliaries) | We should/can/will go. |
| Example of a syntactic frame test for verb (negated) | You should not leave yet. |
| Example of comparative adjectives | taller, smarter, bolder, finer |
| Example of superlative adjectives | biggest, fullest, reddest, coolest |
| Example of adjectives syntactic frame test (periphrastic comparative) | more insistent, more perplexing, more evident, most original, most fulfilling, most intellectual |
| Example of adverbs syntactic frame test | regularly, suddenly, apparently |
| Prepositions examples | in, on, over, under, up, down, to, for, by |
| Determiners examples | the boring lecture, some breaking news, my cuddly cat |
| determiner possessive adjectives examples | my, your, his, her, our, their |
| determiner possessive nouns examples | the neighbor’s dog, my professor’s lab notes |
| determiner quantifiers examples | some, many, all, several |
| determiner distributive examples | each, any, either, neither |
| determiner interrogative examples | which, what, whose |
| Replacement examples | -The five boxing wizards jump quickly -They jump quickly |
| Replacement (noun phrases) examples | The boy dropped his pencil -> He dropped his pencil. The girl scored a basket -> She scored a basket. The students played at recess -> They played at recess. The cat meowed loudly -> It meowed loudly. |
| Replacement (verb phrases) examples | -Who invented writing? The Sumerians did. -Lee ate the last cookie. Who ate the last cookie? Lee did |
| Replacement (adjective phrases) examples | -Jo loves reading thrilling books. I love such books, too. |
| Replacement (Prepositional Phrases) examples | -They met back before the COVID crisis. -They met back then. -The murder occurred at the waterfront. -The murder occurred there. |
| Stand Alone Test examples | Who is there? Me. Who watered the lawn? Larry. Where did you go? To the beach. When did that happen? In 1997. What are you doing? Watching Mr Robot. |
| Movement Test Clefting examples | -Some people buy books from local bookstores on the weekend -It is some people that buy books -It is books that people buy from local bookstores -It is from local bookstores that some people buy books on the weekend |
| Movement Test Topicalization examples | -Lisa can’t stand country music. -Country music, Lisa can’t stand (but she loves bluegrass). |
| Movement Test Passivization examples | *The cat stalked the mouse -> The mouse was stalked by the cat |
| Movement Test Initial position examples | *The dog barked. *Barked the dog. *It was the dog that barked |
| Failing test examples | -Yesterday, Jo wrote a poem. -Yesterday they a poem. -Yesterday did a poem -The newspaper reported that voter participation will increase. -It newspaper that voter participation will increase. -Newspaper did that voter participation will increase |
| Example of lexical | pit: ‘a hole’ pit: ‘a hard stone in a fruit’ |
| Example of functional ambiguity | Ted likes politics more than you. |
| Example of recursion | There’s a toe on the foot of a frog on a log in a hole at the bottom of the sea. |
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