LAST CLASS - WEDNESDAY APRIL 30

EXTRA CREDIT ASSIGNMENT (OPTIONAL):

Select an article (newspaper, journal- off the internet is fine).  Note each adverbial, sentence modifier, nominal and adjectival, specifying the specific type and form.


TEST 3 (Practice)

I. Active/Passive Transformations

Change the sentences from active to passive (hold all tenses constant)

1. They will finish the reports later on this week.

2. Everyone is still honoring her work even today.

3. They have exchanged many letters in the past year.

Change the sentences below from passive to active ( holding all tenses constant).

4. The story had been passed on from generation to generation.

5. Nothing will be sent until the end of the month.

II. Syntactic transformations.

Show the deep structure and the surface structure for the following question.

6. Who did Mary see at the theatre?

III. Adverbials

Read the following sentences and make note of each adverbial. Specify its form (i.e., adverb, PP, clause, infinitive phrase (VP), NP)

7. I'll come home early Tuesday to clean up the house before we leave on vacation.

8. Our friends on the block take care of our cats when we go to Mexico in the summer.

IV. Adjectivals

Read the following sentences and make note of each adjectival. Specify its form (i.e. adjective, PP, adverb, infinitive phrase, participle phrases, NP, clause)

9. The best thing to do is to keep quiet.

10. My college roomate, who I haven't seen in many years, is coming for a two-week visit in June.

11. The kids, having finished their dinner, went to bed without a fuss.

V. Nominals

Read the following sentences and make note of each nominal. Specifiy its form (i.e. NP, gerund phrase, infinitive phrase, clause) AND specific function (i.e. subject, direct object, indirect object, object of preposition, subject complement).

12. The solution to the problem is really quite simple.

13. I told my parents that finishing school just wasn't an option.

VI. Sentence modifiers.

Make note of each (potential) sentence modifier, specifying its form (i.e. subordinate clause, noun (vocative), appositive, absolute phrase, relative clause, infinitive phrase, adverb, PP)

14. For your information, I know exactly what I'm doing.

15. Much to her delight, her parents bought her a plane ticket to Europe as a graduation present.

16. Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.

17. My best friend being away this summer, I don't have anyone to go to the movies with.

18. They children never clean up after themselves and expect their parents to do everything, which I find totally appalling.

VII. Adverbials, adjectivals, nominals, and sentence modifiers mixed up (LIKE EXERCISES WE'VE BEEN DOING IN CLASS- SPECIFY FORM AND FUNCTION)

VIII. Some sentence trees.