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Which phrase is correct: “what days are the mall open” vs. “what days is the mall open”?‎

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What is the latest model of TG syntactic theory? ‎

How do we account for a trace filled by a resumptive pronoun co-indexed (co-referential) with an antecedent head noun after an NP movement ?‎

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Identify the bold italic words according to their clause type:?‎

"When I lived in London, I played golf every day." - dependent - independent‎

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What are the bold italic word in the following sentence?‎

"Can you help me with this math problem?" - predicate - subject‎

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John saw the man on the mountain with a telescope. Who has the telescope? John, the man on the mountain, or the mountain?‎

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Why the following sentence is ambiguous? The mother of the girl and the boy will arrive next week.‎

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Do you think education can change people's everyday language? ‎

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How can we prove a noun phrase sentence?‎

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What is the sentence that is concocted by Noam Chomsky as an example of a sentence that is grammatically correct, but semantically nonsensical?‎

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What does the prefix chloro mean?‎

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