Basic English Grammar with Exercises

Exercise 4 In our sentence, this position cannot be the final position of the DP Mary the v head of the middle vP is occupied by ...

Suggested Answers and Hints - Chapter 6 l) In the sentence Jim took his shoes off we find a phrasal verb take off. The main verb ...

Exercise 4 m) In the sentence Jim took off his shoes we also find the phrasal verb take off, but here the preposition off preced ...

Suggested Answers and Hints - Chapter 6 n) In the sentence John thinks that Jim knows that Mary gave his book to Jane there is a ...

Exercise 4 CP 3 C' C IP that DP I' Jim I vP knows 6 v' v vP t 6 t 4 v' v VP t 6 VP CP 5 t 5 V' V t 6 ...

Suggested Answers and Hints - Chapter 7 CP 5 C' C IP that DP 7 I' Mary I vP gave 8 v' v vP t 8 t 7 v' v VP t 8 DP V' his book V ...

Check Quesions Q2 Main clauses in English, although it is preferable for them to be conceptualised as CPs, are never introduced ...

Suggested Answers and Hints - Chapter 7 Q7 Operators are elements that indicate a process necessary in order to be able to work ...

Check Quesions structurally from the noun they modify than restrictives as only restrictives can be part of one-pronominalisatio ...

Suggested Answers and Hints - Chapter 7
Exercise 1 Nominative case is given by the finite inflection, that is, an inflection t ...

Exercise 3 e Has John ever been caught in the act? passivisation and subject–auxiliary inversion (yes–no question) D-structure b ...

Suggested Answers and Hints - Chapter 7
Exercise 4 (1) a WH-movement The verb live when used in the sense of 'reside' is an un ...

Exercise 4 (1) b raising The verb seem is a raising verb, which means that it has only one clausal complement, its subject posit ...

Suggested Answers and Hints - Chapter 7 (1) c raising + wh-movement In this sentence wh-movement and raising are combined. The v ...

Exercise 5
Exercise 5 (1) a Which book did John buy? b Short stories, I don’t like. c Short stories I expect nobody likes. d M ...

Suggested Answers and Hints - Chapter 7 similarly to sentence (1a). Thematic role assignment can be accounted for in the same ma ...

Exercise 6 It is assumed that the subject Mary moves from the Spec,VP position of the embedded sentence to the Spec,IP of the ma ...

Suggested Answers and Hints - Chapter 7 nominative case. Movement of DPs to Spec,IP to get nominative case is called DP movement ...

Exercise 7 (6) a John -s like who b Whoj doesi John ti like ti That the movement of the interrogative pronoun is substitution is ...

Suggested Answers and Hints - Chapter 7 the copy in C while the foot of the chain is in v as in (3). The thematic verb also move ...