Questionnaire on grammatical knowledge
Answers and report form
From the sentence below give ONE example of each of the grammatical items
requested and write it in the space provided. NB You may select the same word(s}
more than once if appropriate.
Materials are delivered to the factory by a supplier, who usually has no
technical knowledge, but who happens to have the right contacts.
verb
noun
are | (are) delivered | has | happens | (to)
have
materials | factory | supplier | (technical)
knowledge | (right) contacts
countable noun
materials | factory | supplier | contacts
passive verb
(are) delivered
adjective
technical | right
adverb
usually
definite article
the [do not accept answers that provide a
definite NP]
indefinite article a [do not accept answers that provide an
indefinite NP]
preposition
by | to
relative pronoun who
auxiliary verb
are
past participle
delivered [do not accept ‘are delivered’]
conjunction
but
finite verb
are | has | happens
infinitive
(to) have
Reporting the results
Please report the results as follows:
 Divide students into ‘linguists’ (in the broader sense of students on a languagerelated undergraduate programme such as linguistics or a foreign language) and
‘non-linguists’. If none are specialising in a language-related programme, report
them all as ‘non-linguists’.
 Report the number in each student category.
 For each student category, report the number (or percent) who produced wrong
answers for each item. (If you prefer to report just right answers, that’s fine, but
please make it clear in your report!)
 You can use the table below to report the results, or you can use a spreadsheet.
 Send your report to Dick Hudson at dick@ling.ucl.ac.uk.
Your details
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Institution:
Your contact details:
Degree programme:
Figures show:
o errors or successes?
o raw numbers or percentages?
Results
students
number
verb
noun
countable noun
passive verb
adjective
adverb
definite article
indefinite article
preposition
relative pronoun
auxiliary verb
past participle
conjunction
finite verb
infinitive
Overseas
English
Language
Foreign
Language
EL &
FL
Other