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The world's oldest cat

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In the following text, do the constituents^[1] in bold share the same forms and functions? Answer Yes or No.

source: http://www.mid-day.com/articles/the-worlds-oldest-cat-is-121-and-an-avid-user-of-social-media/16987183

The world's oldest cat is 121 and an avid user of social media!

At 26 years and 205 days old - nearly 121 in cat years - mature moggy Corduroy has racked up thousands of followers (1) on Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat.

Fans log on daily to catch up with the latest adventures of the pensioner pussy (2), who (3) holds the prestigious Guinness World Records title for oldest living cat and is still in remarkable good health.

His owner Ashley Reed Okura, 34, said: "I set up Corduroy's Instagram (4) on August 13 last year - the same day Guinness World Records (5) graciously announced his claim to the record of oldest living cat. He also has Snapchat and Facebook and the reaction has been really positive (6). I do my best to update his followers and respond to messages and special requests."

Corduroy lives with entrepreneur Ashley and her 37-year-old husband Aaron Masuru Okura (7), a ranch restaurant owner , in Sisters, Oregon. (...)

Corduroy, who has more than 2,500 Instagram followers, first took the Guinness World Records title in June 2014 before it was stolen by Tiffany Two, an older (8) cat from California.

When she died in June last year (9), he was awarded the honour again and, aside from eating a special low-protein diet (10) to protect his kidneys, the senior feline does not act his age.

Ashley, who hopes to have children (11) next year to provide Corduroy with human siblings, said she believes the secret to her pet's longevity is the time he spends outdoors - although she has begun to now supervise him on walks because of eagles and coyote.

1. Do (1) and (2) have the same function?

Expected answer

Yes
No

Question 2

2. Do (3) and (5) have the same form?

Expected answer

Yes
No

Question 3

3. Do (1) and (4) have the same function?

Expected answer

Yes
No

Question 4

4. Do (5) and (7) have the same function?

Expected answer

Yes
No

Question 5

5. Do (6) and (8) have the same form?

Expected answer

Yes
No

Question 6

6. Do (7) and (9) have the same function?

Expected answer

Yes
No

Question 7

7. Do (6) and (10) have the same form?

Expected answer

Yes
No

Question 8

8. Do (10) and (11) have the same function?

Expected answer

Yes
No

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Notes

Constituents
Constituents, also called phrases, are the (potentially larger) units that the combination of words create. In the sentence The big cat was running in the garden, for instance, the words the, big and cat form the larger constituent the big cat. They can be identified by using constituency tests (for more information on constituency tests, see Bas Aarts (2001), English Syntax and Argumentation, pp. 193-240). Substitution, for example, is a kind of test for constituency: noun phrases (NPs) can often be replaced by a single pronoun (the old man who lives across the street from me > ‘he'). Constituents have both a form and a function.

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Question formation
Constituents
Identifying forms and functions.
Identifying functions.
Identify Forms
Complementation
Interrogative clauses
Interrogative clauses - question tags
Lexical verbs and auxiliary verbs
Passive
Review
Auxiliary verbs
Ellipsis
Phrasal verbs
Identifying future time reference
Identifying modal meanings
Identifying past time reference with modals
Identifying situation types
Negation with modal verbs
Perfect tenses
Present tense
Tense and aspect overview
The function of progressive aspect
Time reference of modal verbs
Using modals
Using necessity modals
Using possibility modals
Using tenses
Will and shall

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