Directions: Judge whether each of the following statements is true or false. Put T for true or F for false in the bracket in front of each statement. If you think a statement is false, you must explain why you think so and give the correct version.
Lexical categories are generally known as parts of speech, and a language has major and minor lexical categories of a finite set.
Judge whether the following statement is true or false. Put a T for true or F for false in the bracket in front of each state ment. If you think a statement is false, you must explain why you think so and then give the cor rect version.
Major lexical categories are open categories in the sense that new words are constantly added.
The number of the lexical items in the minor lexical categories is （）and no new members are allowed for.
Major lexical categories are closed categories because the number of lexical items in these categories is fixed and no new members are allowed for.
Words in a sentence are organized into groups of lexical（ ）, commonly known as parts of speech.
Directions：Judge weather each of the following statements is true or false. Put a T for true or F for false in the brackets in front of each statement. If you think a statement is false, you must explain why you think so and then give the correct version.
A language has major and minor lexical categories of a finite set. Major categories are closed categories and minor categories are open categories.
Directions: Explain the following terms, using one or two examples for illustration, if necessary.
major lexical category
Generally speaking, major lexical categories are open categories and minor lexical categories are closed categories.
Judge whether the following statement is true or false. Put a T for true or F for false on the ANSWER SHEET. If you think a statement is false, you must explain why you think so and then give the correct version.
Pronoun is a major lexical category in the English language.
Judge whether the following statement is true or false. Put a T for true or F for false on the ANSWER SHEET for the statement. If you think the statement is false, you must explain why you think so and then give the correct version.
Major lexical categories are open categories.
The subordinator only marks the beginning of an embedded clause, and it doesn't indicate the grammatical function of the embedded clause in the sentence.
Directions: Explain the following terms, using one or two examples for illustration.
embedded clause
finite clause
Directions: Explain the following term, using one or two examples for illustration.
coordinate sentence
Directions: Explain the following terms and give examples for illustration where appropriate.
Directions：Judge whether each of the following statements is true or false. Put a T for true or F for false in the brackets in front of each statement. If you think a statement is false, you must explain why you think so and then give the correct version.
One of the clauses in a coordinate sentence is subordinate to the other.
Explain with at least 2 examples what a finite clause is and tell which of the following 4 sentences are Not finite clauses.
A.The weather being fine.
B.The book to be finished.
C.When we got there.
D.John asked Mary to leave early.
simple sentence
Directions: Explain the following term and give examples for illustration where appropriate.
Judge whether each of the following statements is true or false. Put a T for true or F for false on the ANSWER SHEET for each statement. If you think a statement is false, you must explain why you think so and then give the correct version.
Traditionally, two major types of sentences are distinguished, namely, simple sentence and complex sentence.