BANKING UNIVERSITY OF HO CHI MINH CITY Student’s name: ………………….

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FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES Reg. No.: ……………………………

MID-TERM TEST (Format)

Subject: MORPHOLOGY-SYNTAX
Time allotted: 30 minutes Date: 05/10/2022

(Students are not allowed to use dictionaries or materials.)

Part 1: Make a list of word into a phrase as showed in the following example. Identify the kind of phrase it is and
underline the head. (1 point)
Example: books / very / several /old NP: several very old books

Part 2: State the types and functions of the underlined groups of words. (2 points)
Sentence Type Function
e.g. That really disturbs me. Pronoun, NP Object

Part 3: Underline the clause elements, determine their functions, identify the verb patterns of the following
sentences. (2 points)
Sentence Pattern
Example: My mother fell sick last night. S - V - CS
S V CS (A)

Part 4: Explain the structural ambiguity of the following sentence by providing two paraphrases and draw two tree
diagrams for the sentence. (2 points)
She gave her cat food.

(1) = __________________________________________

(2) = __________________________________________

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Part 5: Draw the tree diagram for the following phrases/sentences. (2 points)

Smoke filled the room in a minute.

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Part 6: Underline the dependent clauses in the following sentences and then state whether they are nominal,
adjectival or adverbial clause. (1 point)
Sentence Kind of dependent clauses
Example: If you say so, we’re leaving now. Adverbial

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