The article uses relative clauses to expand noun phrases
and connect information without repeatedly naming the
same referents. Consider the excerpt below and the
syntactic relations established within it.
"The survey uncovered thousands of geometric patterns built into the Earth, known as geoglyphs, which take various shapes including circles and squares and appear to be connected by straight roads or pathways."
Regarding the highlighted linguistic structures, mark T, for true, and F, for false.
(__)The word which functions as a possessive relative pronoun and could be replaced by whose without changing the syntactic organization of the clause.
(__)The phrase by straight roads or pathways contains by introducing the element interpreted as connecting the geoglyphs in the passive construction.
(__)The relative pronoun which has geoglyphs as its antecedent and introduces information about their forms and apparent connections.
(__)In various shapes including circles and squares, including introduces examples belonging to the broader category expressed by shapes.
After analysis, select the alternative that presents the CORRECT sequence of the items above, from top to bottom.
"The survey uncovered thousands of geometric patterns built into the Earth, known as geoglyphs, which take various shapes including circles and squares and appear to be connected by straight roads or pathways."
Regarding the highlighted linguistic structures, mark T, for true, and F, for false.
(__)The word which functions as a possessive relative pronoun and could be replaced by whose without changing the syntactic organization of the clause.
(__)The phrase by straight roads or pathways contains by introducing the element interpreted as connecting the geoglyphs in the passive construction.
(__)The relative pronoun which has geoglyphs as its antecedent and introduces information about their forms and apparent connections.
(__)In various shapes including circles and squares, including introduces examples belonging to the broader category expressed by shapes.
After analysis, select the alternative that presents the CORRECT sequence of the items above, from top to bottom.
