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KHOA NGOẠI NGỮ
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(Đề thi có 3 trang)

I. Identify the functions of the underlined in the following sentences.

Put your answer in the answer box.

1. B 2. C 3. C 4. A 5. B 6. A 7. B 8. C 9. A 10. C

1. The speaker made this the main point of his argument.

A. Nominal B. Object Predicative C. Noun Phrase
2. The trainees got much quicker over those three months.
A. prepositional phrase B. Sentence Adverbial C. VP adverbial
3. The old man grew increasingly intolerant, in my opinion.
A. Adjective phrase B. object C. Subject Predicative
4. Her mother and father approve of Matilda’s behavior.
A. Prepositional Complement B. Noun Phrase C. Object of Verb
5. This so-called music made me mad.
A. Object B. Object Predicative C. Adjective
6. The sidewalks are slippery and dangerous.
A. Subject Predicative B. Adjective phrase C. Coordinate phrase
7. Snow is beautiful when it falls.
A. Transitive Verb B. Intransitive Verb C. Intensive Verb
8. The carpenter hit the nail with a hammer.
A. Prepositional phrase B. post-modifier C. Adjunct Adverbial
9. Much of the book seems relevant to this study.
A. Subject B. Quantifier C. Determiner
10. The contributions from the well-established resources should be appreciated.
A. Prepositional Complement B. Prepositional phrase C. post-modifier

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

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 II. Decide the functions of the underlined. Put your answers (√) in the answer box.

0. We are sitting beside the students.

1. Obviously, “No bees, no honey”, an English saying goes.
2. At last, no one agreed on the matter.
3. I could spot him easily among the crowd.
4. Hopefully, everything will be all right.
5. At first there was silence. Then came a voice, a really sharp voice.
6. The children to school with excitement.
7. That boy could climb up the tree, rather unexpectedly.
8. The value of yen has fallen. As a result, Japan faces crisis.
9. Astonishingly, crime rates in cities do not differ from those in rural areas.
10. On the roof was lying a cat looking around.

Answer:
Function 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Adjunct √
Disjunct
Conjunct

III. Identify the categories of the following Verbs/Verb Phrases.

Write your answers in the answer box on the right.

The underlined V/VP Categories

0. We admire the beauty. 0. Lex.V [trans]
1. Alaska looks so pure and natural. 1.
2. I dream about its scenic landscape. 2.
3. Watching the beautiful colors always calms me. 3.
4. I can relax in many places of the back garden. 4.
5. He made me upset. 5.
6. Sure, I’ll pick the children up at eight. 6.
7. They show us an amazing picture of the 7.
8. I consider him my best friend. 8.
9. Many international businesses have offices in there. 9.
10. Santa promised the little girl a wonderful Christmas. 10.

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IV. Drawing phrase markers.
a) Write a structure that matches the following syntactical diagram.

NP VP

DET NOM [di-trans] NOM PP

AP NOM P NOM

Poss N V A N-head Pro

=>

b) Draw complete phrase makers of the following structure. A triangle is not

acceptable

Jimmy does not differ from his younger brothers, quite truly.

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