Ministry of higher and secondary special education of the republic uzbekistan state world languages university

 
 
 
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Exercise#1. Read the statements. Circle the true or false. 
1.
Sentence is universal linguistic phenomenon while phrase is not 
True / False 
2.
According to I. Mestchaninov languages are classified into nominative, 
ergative and passive 
True / False 
3.
The element of a phrase can be morphologically equal or unequal 
True / False 

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4.
Greenberg found out only two variants of word order: S+P+O, S+O+P. 
True / False 
5.
According to Greenberg, the English and Russian languages belong to the 
SPO word order type. 
True / False 
6.
If the elements are syntactically unequal, one of them modifies the other. 
True / False 
7.
According to Vladimir Skalicka, fixed word order is characteristic of 
agglutinational and isolating types. 
True / False 
8.
The principal element is called the “adjunct” or “head word”.
 
True / False 
 
Exercise#2. Fill the table below. Write the types and definitions of phrases in 
the missed places according to its structural feature. 
English 
 
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all elements are 
obligatory 
Expanded
 
to read and 
translate 
the 
text – 
expanded 
elements 
are 
equal in rank
Extended 
 
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