Syntactic Functions

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What is the predicate of the following sentence "America is the new
world"?
The new world.
World.
Is.
New.
Is the new world.
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What is the syntactic function (type) of the verb in "the man carried my
suitcases"?
Transitive verb.
Ditransitive verb.
Linking verb.
Complex transitive verb.
Intransitive verb.
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What is the syntactic function (type) of the underlined verb in "Clarice
Lispector is a Brazilian novelist"?
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Verb predicator.
 Ditransitive verb.
Passive voice.
Predicate.
Linking verb.
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What is the predicator of the sentence "Italy's Government faced a crisis in
the Middle of Pandemic?
Italy's Government.
A crisis.
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In the Middle of Pandemic.
Middle.
Faced.
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What is the subject of this sentence: "Every day Alice's father came home
late, because of his two jobs"?
Alice's father.
Every day.
Father.
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His two jobs.
Alice.
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In modern syntactic studies, intransitive verbs can be divided in two
groups: unergative and unaccusative. There are many ways for
distinguishing them and the subject semantic role is one of them: subjects
of unergative verbs are usually agents, whereas subjects of unnacusative
are not. Based on it, what is the option with an unaccusative verb?
My oldest son can run really fast.
I walked through the woods.
His poor child fell.
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My mother sang all night long.
It¿s raining cats and dogs.
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Adverbials can be placed at the beginning or end of sentences. One-word
adverbials, such as 'Perhaps' are placed at the beginning. When adverbials
initiate the sentence, however, the whole sentence is modified. Bearing this
information in mind, which meaning is the sentence-initial adverbial
conveying in the following sentence: "Hopefully I can be a doctor"?
Probability.
Desirability.
Presumption.
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Usuality.
Manner.