Morphology and Syntax Extra Credit Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. the body of rules you use to construct sentences and to understand how others have constructed their sentences
  2. 5. a type of word which can be influenced to create comparative and superlative forms
  3. 9. Identify the main verb in the following sentence: I did not understand the homework.
  4. 10. a unit of meaning in written language; a letter or set of letters representing a phoneme
  5. 11. a type of sentence voice wherein the subject receives the action rather than does it
  6. 16. Syntactic ________ is the parts of speech combined to make sentences, whereas syntactic ___________ is the role of a word or group of words in relation to the other words/groups of words.
  7. 17. a group of words having a subject and a verb; can be independent or dependent
  8. 18. Use the copula inflected for the past perfect tense to complete this sentence: The boy's teacher ____________ understanding every time he needed extra time on his assignments.
  9. 20. The following sentence is what type of adverb? He played professionally for about 13 years before he decided to retire.
  10. 22. What kind of inflectional morpheme is present in the word "cat's?"
  11. 23. the number of descriptive adjectives in the following sentence: My cute dog played in the fluffy snow and barked at the pretty, white flurries.
  12. 24. a class of words which serves to modify verbs and other modifiers
Down
  1. 1. a type of verb which supports the work of the main verb
  2. 3. a socially-shared, rule-based, dynamic, generative system whose purpose is communicating messages
  3. 4. Identify the complete verb in the following sentence: I could have run in the afternoon.
  4. 6. the third largest groups of words in the lexicon which serve to modify nouns and pronouns
  5. 7. Use the comparative form of "honest" to complete the sentence: The little boy was far _________ than was his twin brother.
  6. 8. a category of verb-like words (but not verbs) consisting of infinitives, gerunds, and participles
  7. 12. the class of words which signifies action or state; acts as the "muscle" of the utterance
  8. 13. The following sentence uses which type of adverb? You can eat your snack in the car as long as you don't get crumbs everywhere.
  9. 14. Use a reflexive pronoun to complete the sentence: Jason and Amy had to finish the project _______ after Mason dropped the class.
  10. 15. The acronym often used to represent the most frequently-used coordinating conjunctions.
  11. 16. How many clauses are in the following sentence? I knew I should try to finish my homework but I couldn't bring myself to doing it, especially because I felt so tired after I got home.
  12. 19. a class of pronouns which is used to refer to the self or others and which can be inflected to show attributes
  13. 21. a group of words organized in to phrases and clauses which communicates a complete idea