Basic English Syntax with Exercises

Check Questions

1     What are phrases?

2     What are rewrite rules?

3     Define what a recursive rule looks like and comment on its importance in the grammar.

4     Compare characteristics of subjects in finite and non-finite clauses.

5     What is an direct object, an indirect object and a prepositional object?

6     Compare the dative construction with the double-object construction.

7     What tests can you use to define whether a string of words forms a constituent or not?