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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
   
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	all elements are obligatory	Expanded to read and translate the text – expanded elements are equal in rank	Extended : a beautiful flower – a very beautiful flower
Russian	Simple	Complex (three and more notional words) Example:	-
Uzbek	Simple (consists of two notional words) Example:	(consists of extending the members of simple word combination) осмондаги уч ўрдак, ҳаммадан аълочи ўқувчи	-

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