ELS 105 - English Syntax: Phrase Structure Rules

Fill-in-the-blank flashcards covering key concepts from the notes on Prepositional Phrases, Noun Phrases, Adjective Phrases, Adverb Phrases, and their sentence functions.

A prepositional phrase is a unit consisting of a preposition + __.

noun phrase

A preposition cannot form its own phrase alone. It always requires an accompanying __.

noun phrase

In a prepositional phrase, the 'head' is the __.

preposition

The 'prepositional complement' of a PP is the __.

noun phrase

A triangle under the noun phrase slot indicates that the noun phrase is __.

not further analyzed

In a complete PP analysis, the structure is Head followed by the __.

prepositional complement

In the noun phrase 'our garden', the word 'our' functions as a __.

determiner

In the noun phrase 'the woman in the red dress by the fishpond', the phrases 'in the red dress' and 'by the fishpond' function as NP __.

postmodifications

Sentence functions of prepositional phrases include Adverbial, Postmodifiers in noun phrases, and Adjective __.

complements

Typical structural patterns in the adjective phrase include a) adjective alone, b) adverb + adjective, c) adjective + __.

prepositional phrase

In the adjective phrase, the word 'very' is an __.

adverb

In the adjective phrase 'good at grammar', 'at grammar' is an adjectival __.

complement

To distinguish different levels of 'belonging' in the adjective phrase, we use the concept of the __.

head phrase

Sentence functions of adjective phrases include Subject complement and __.

Modification

A common premodifier in adverb phrases is an adverb of __.

degree

One example of the 'adverb alone' pattern is __.

strongly

In the adverb phrase diagram, the head is the __.

adverb

In a noun phrase, 'three' in 'three feet' is a __.

numeral

In the noun phrase 'the black jacket', 'the' functions as a __.

determiner

'of Sri Lanka' in 'curries of Sri Lanka' is a __ phrase.

prepositional

The head noun in 'the man on the corner' is 'man', and the PP 'on the corner' is a postmodifier. The head noun is __.

man