Basic English Grammar with Exercises

Exercise 1
Exercise 1 Possible configurations: 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 12 1: projection: a Y head cannot project WP, XP has no head, et ...

Suggested Answers and Hints - Chapter 3
Exercise 6 Brackets symbolize the same as nodes do in the tree structure. Each pair of ...

Exercise 9 will category: [+F, –N, +V] subcat: [verbal] get category: [–F, –N, +V]
-grid: <beneficiary theme> subcat: [no ...

Suggested Answers and Hints - Chapter 3 prop theme goal (5) It was believed [that [John] 1 was taken e 1 to [hospital]]. theme l ...

Exercise 11 (2) VP VP YP V' adjunct V^0 XP complement As it can be seen in (2), the verb and its complement forms a phrase witho ...

Suggested Answers and Hints - Chapter 3 In (6a) only the verb stay is moved and the sentence is ill-formed. This means that stay ...

Exercise 13 (iii) In sentence (3a) both PPs can be interpreted as the complement of the head, therefore they can be coordinated ...

Suggested Answers and Hints - Chapter 3 prepositional complement of wild animals to form A'. The adjunct is merged with A' to fo ...

Exercise 14 The adjunct PP is merged with the structure by making the X' level recursive as the result of the application of Adj ...

Suggested Answers and Hints - Chapter 3 (iii) The DP subject in sentence (1c) is headed by the noun student, which is a one-plac ...

Exercise 15 d) DP D' D NP a N' AP N' tall AP N' handsome N PP student of physics e) NP N' AP N' funny AP N' little N thing f) DP ...

Suggested Answers and Hints - Chapter 3
Exercise 16 a) N N N car park b) N A N floppy disk c) N N N N N winner bicycle race d) ...

Exercise 16 g) N N N N N cocktail orange juice h) N N N A N heater hot water i) N N N N N holder season ticket j) N N N N N owne ...

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Exercise 17 The general problem is that the Theta Criterion (a -role must be assigned ...

Exercise 18 b) Predicate: think Thematic roles: experiencer (Terry) propositional (that the car has been stolen) DPs: Terry nomi ...

Suggested Answers and Hints - Chapter 4
Exercise 19 (ii) XP  XP Y; XP  XP YP; X'  X' Y; X'  X' YP; X  X Y; X  X YP The s ...

Check Questions indefinite. Again, there is a phonologically empty D head responsible for this interpretation. The empty definit ...

Suggested Answers and Hints - Chapter 4
Suggested answer forExercise 1 (1) a DP D' D NP all N' N PP e P' P DP e D' D NP the N' ...

Suggested answer forExercise 1 (1) b DP D' D NP e AP N' A' N PP A e P' few P DP of D' D NP the N' AP N' A' N A boys blonde ...

Suggested Answers and Hints - Chapter 4 (1) c DP AP DP A' D' A D NP nearly every N' AP N' A' N PP A student P' clever P DP of D' ...