Sentence parts are called

The constituents at different levels combine to form increasingly large units

What is the smallest meaningful language part?

Marking off each constituent from sentence level to word level

Notational device which is equivalent labelled bracketing, though different in representation.

S→ S coord S

Constituency tests are performed by

The boundaries of sentences are marked by means of

Conjoin is

Compound sentence

The clauses in which the verb (usualy the form of the verb to be) or other elements have been omitted.

Word classes ( parts of speech) are essential for any grammatical description and are defined by their

Functional parts of speech are sentence members.

Criteria for determining word classes are

Subsective Gradience is a phenomenon when

Each phrase contains a head which may be preceded by specifiers and followed by complements and by optional constituents.

An argument is an expression in the noun phrase that helps complete the meaning of a predicate.

If a clause contains an impersonal verb, it is

Primary verbs function as

Dare, need, ought to, used to are

Catenative verbs

Ambitransitive verbs

Obligatory valency concerns

An adjunct is

Agent, instrument, recipient are

The head of the prepositional phrases is

Predicative complements, adverbial complements, predicative adjuncts are