Syntax and Sentence Structure Flashcards
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Morphosyntax refers to the intersection of:
Answer: Morphology meaning word structure and syntax meaning sentence structure
Morphosyntax describes grammatical phenomena at the intersection of morphology and syntax, such as agreement markers and inflectional suffixes.
Teaching students to use signal words such as although, therefore, and however in writing primarily develops:
Answer: Syntactic and discourse-level writing skill by marking logical relationships between ideas
Signal words mark the logical relationship between clauses and sentences, developing syntactic complexity and cohesion in written expression.
A student consistently writes The dogs runs fast reflecting confusion with subject-verb agreement. This most likely reflects a weakness in:
Answer: Morphosyntactic awareness specifically agreement marking
Subject-verb agreement errors reflect a morphosyntactic weakness, specifically difficulty applying the grammatical rule that the verb must agree in number with the subject.
A CALT working on sentence-level writing with a student might use sentence expansion activities, which involve:
Answer: Adding modifying phrases and clauses to a basic kernel sentence to develop syntactic complexity
Sentence expansion activities develop syntactic fluency by teaching students to add descriptive, adverbial, and relative clauses to basic sentences, building complexity and precision in writing.
Understanding complex inverted conditional sentences such as Had she studied she would have passed the test requires:
Answer: Advanced syntactic knowledge of inverted conditional constructions
Inverted conditionals use subject-auxiliary inversion instead of if, requiring advanced syntactic knowledge to parse correctly and understand as a conditional relationship.
When teaching syntax explicitly, a CALT might use which evidence-based approach?
Answer: Using the sentence combining technique to help students generate more complex sentence structures
Sentence combining is a well-researched, hands-on technique that builds syntactic complexity through active manipulation of sentence structures rather than passive copying or labeling.