Crossword puzzle : Syntactic variations in English

Think you’ve mastered English grammar? Put your knowledge to the ultimate test with this advanced crossword exploring the rich world of syntactic variation. From topicalization and cleft constructions to inversion and ellipsis, this puzzle challenges you to identify and name the structural patterns that shape how English speakers bend, twist, and reorder their sentences for effect.

Horizontalement

1. 1. Doer of the action in a sentence
2. 3. A vibration that can be heard
3. 9. Element given prominence in a clause
4. 10. Moving topic to front of sentence
5. 11. from which place or source
6. 13. word indicating later time
7. 14. Past form of may used in backshift
8. 15. Amount charged for a product
9. 16. All members of a group

Verticalement

1. 1. Attaching a modifier to a phrase
2. 2. to believe or consider something
3. 4. Moving a phrase to sentence periphery
4. 5. Arrangement of syntactic elements
5. 6. Phrase completing the meaning of a head
6. 7. Element searching for a syntactic goal
7. 8. Phrase in outer position of a structure
8. 11. At the same time, although
9. 12. Of short duration