DLAB Grammar 5

Question 1

In 'The more you practice, the faster you learn,' what grammatical structure is demonstrated?

Accepted Answer

Comparative correlative construction

Answer

The 'the more...the faster' pattern is a comparative correlative structure linking two proportional comparisons.

Question 2

What is 'government' in syntactic terminology?

Accepted Answer

A rule requiring a head word to determine the grammatical case or form of a dependent

Answer

Government (or 'selection') means a head word — such as a preposition or verb — requires its complement to appear in a specific grammatical form or case.

Question 3

Which option is an example of an attributive adjective?

Accepted Answer

The classified report was filed.

Answer

An attributive adjective ('classified') appears directly before the noun it modifies ('report'), unlike a predicative adjective which follows a linking verb.

Question 4

In the sentence 'She asked whether the test had been scored,' what is the grammatical role of 'whether the test had been scored'?

Accepted Answer

Nominal (noun) clause acting as the object of 'asked'

Answer

'Whether the test had been scored' is a noun clause functioning as the direct object of the verb 'asked.'

Question 5

What distinguishes a phrase from a clause in English grammar?

Accepted Answer

A clause has a subject and a finite verb; a phrase lacks one or both.

Answer

A clause contains a subject and a finite (tensed) verb, while a phrase is a grammatical group lacking that subject-verb combination.

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DLAB Grammar 5