Questions for End-of-term Oral Tests on English Traditional Syntax

1. What is the structural classification of English subordinate clauses? Give some examples.

2. What are the characteristic features and syntactic functions of English adjectives? Give
examples.

3. What are the common ways of expressing the subject? Give some examples.

4. How are subordinate clauses functionally classified? Give some examples.

5. What is the realisation of Adverbials? Give examples?

6. What is the difference between an adverb, adverbial and an adjunct? Give examples.

7. What are disjuncts? Their types? Give some examples.

8. What are the possible forms of the Subject Complement? Give some examples.

9. What are the possible forms of the Object Complement? Give some examples

10. What can be the complementation of ditransitive verbs? Give examples.

11. What can be the complementation of an intensive verb of SVC pattern? Give examples?

12. What are the syntactic functions of V-ing clauses? Give some examples.

13. According to verb phrase structure (structurally), What are the kinds of clause? Give some
examples.

14. What is an adverbial clause? Its main types? Give some examples.

15. Describe types of relative clauses. Give some examples.

16. What are the syntactical functions of nominal that clause? Give examples.

17. What can function as a post-modifier in a complex noun phrase? Give some examples.

18. What are the syntactic functions of “to-infinitive” non-finite clause? Give some examples.

19. What are the syntactic functions of “noun phrases”? Give some examples.

20. What is the structure of the complex noun phrase? its features? Give some examples.