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Gramática Inglesa
Facultad de Filología
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
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1. Which of the following statements is NOT correct?
a. Circumstances and attributes are types of semantic roles.
b. Non-finite clauses do not have a subject. *12
c. All grammatically independent clauses are finite.
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8. What is the role of ‘that he was about to join the army’ in ‘The news that he was
about to join the army was shocking’ with respect to the previous noun?
a. It modifies the noun.
b. It complements the noun.*45
c. They are adjacent but different constituents.
9. What makes ‘There’ a non-prototypical subject in ‘There were lots of people waiting
outside’ according to Systemic Functional Grammar?
a. It cannot be used in tag phrases.
b. It cannot be replaced by a pronoun.*45
c. It wouldn’t be inverted with the verb in a question.
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10 What is ‘for the rest’ in ‘Susan bought presents for the rest’ in Systemic Functional
Grammar?
a. An indirect object.
b. A recipient.
c. A beneficiary.*47
11. Why would a speaker place a verbal particle after the object, as in ‘The driver ran
the rabbit over’?
a. To focus on ‘over’. *57
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b. To focus on ‘the rabbit’.
c. To emphasize the predication.
14.What is the subject in the sentence ‘The list of presents which she says I wrote
wasn’t just for me’?
a. The list of presents
b. The list of presents which
c. The list of presents which she says I wrote*72
16. What is ‘two and a half hours’ in ‘The film lasted two and a half hours’?
a. A direct object
b. A locative complement*82
c. A time complement
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c. The presence of ‘if’ and ‘whether’ for wh-questions.
20. The syntactic structure of the following sentence: “I told him (that) Susan and Peter
were looking forward to his visit”…
a. favours the omission of complementizer ‘that’.
b. favours the retention of complementizer ‘that’. *97
c. is indifferent to complementizer ‘that’ in the sense that there are no syntactic
factors favouring its omission or retention.