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Suffix: Meaning: Stem type: Examples:
Prefix: Meaning: Stem type: Examples:
VI. Answer the following question:
What is an inflectional morpheme? Locate the inflectional morpheme in each of the following sentences and point out its grammatical meaning.
Mr. Smith lives in the Big Apple. The film’s already started.
We are preparing for an important test.
Chapter 4：Syntax
I. Decide whether each of the following statements is True or False:
1. Syntax is a subfield of linguistics that studies the sentence structure of language, including the combination of morphemes into words.
2. Grammatical sentences are formed following a set of syntactic rules.
3. Sentences are composed of sequence of words arranged in a simple linear order, with one adding onto another following a simple arithmetic logic.
4. The syntactic rules of any language are finite in number, but there is no limit to the number of sentences native speakers of that language are able to produce and comprehend.
5. In a complex sentence, the two clauses hold unequal status, one subordinating the other.
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6. Constituents that can be substituted for one another without loss of grammaticality belong to the same syntactic category.
7. A sentence can’t have more than one deep structure.
8. The structure that occurs after movement takes place is what we term as surface structure.
9. In English the subject usually precedes the verb and the direct object usually follows the verb.
10. A noun phrase contains a noun, while other el