CSET English Subtest Comprehensive Resource To Help You Ace Includes Frequently Tested Questions With ELABORATED 100% Correct COMPLETE SOLUTIONS Guaranteed Pass First Attempt!! (Current Update!!)

CSET English Subtest Comprehensive Resource To Help You Ace Includes Frequently Tested Questions With ELABORATED 100% Correct COMPLETE SOLUTIONS Guaranteed Pass First Attempt!! (Current Update!!) 1. Grammar - Correct Answer: morphology + syntax + phonology 2. Generative grammar - Correct Answer: theory: people share an innate and universal set of linguistic structures & are genetically predisposed to language 3. Universal Grammar - Correct Answer: set of principles that apply to all languages and are unconsciously accessible to every human language user. Similarities between languages due to - Common aspects of human experience (e.g. need for water thus develop word for water) - Common patterns of descent (e.g. Spanish and Italian from Latin) 4. Dependent clause - Correct Answer: subject + verb BUT does not express a complete thought (incl. adverb clauses, adjective clauses, noun clauses) 5. Simple sentence/ Independent clause - Correct Answer: subject + verb. Expresses complete thought. 6. Compound sentence - Correct Answer: two independent clauses joined by a coordinator (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so) 7. Complex sentence - Correct Answer: independent clause joined by one or more dependent clauses. Always has a subordinator/ subordinating conjunction (since, because, after, although, as, as if, before, even though, if, unless, until, while, when, whenever; who, which, that). The subordinating conjunction is in the dependent clause. 8. Clausal modifier - Correct Answer: clause that acts like an adverb or adjective and adds detail to a sentence 9. Adverb clause - Correct Answer: modifies verb, adj, adv. Begins with a subordinator. 10. Adjective clause - Correct Answer: modifies a noun, pronoun, adj. 11. Phrasal modifier - Correct Answer: phrase that functions as an adjective or adverb in a sentence 12. Appositional phrase - Correct Answer: identifies or describes a nearby noun. Can be "embedded" rather than at beginning/end 13. Count nouns - Correct Answer: things that can be divided into smaller units 14. Noncount nouns - Correct Answer: things that cannot be counted b/c are wholes that are not divisible into parts 15. Determiners - Correct Answer: modifying words that are always followed by a noun. Make up the determiner system Articles, Possessive nouns, Posessive pronouns, Numbers, Indefinite pronouns 16. Absolute phrase - Correct Answer: noun + participle (phrase). Does not modify any single word in the sentence but is part of the sentence or has a logical relationship to it. 17. Noun phrase - Correct Answer: functions as a noun in a sentence 18. Verbal phrase - Correct Answer: a verbal (verb that fxns as another part of speech) + all of its modifiers and objects. Can be a participial phrase (as an adj.), gerund phrase (as a noun), or infinitive phrase. Can fxn as various parts of speech. 19. Verb Complement - Correct Answer: one verb as the object of another verb (infinitives, gerunds, noun clauses) 20. Word transformations - Correct Answer: exercise in altering the syntax of a sentence yet employing or retaining a key word and basic sentence meaning (e.g. "It's the most beautiful statue I've ever seen" "I have never seen a more beautiful statue")