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

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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