Basic English Grammar with Exercises

Exercise 8 As the grammaticality in sentence (1b) shows the items the and letter form a constituent, the reason why the and lett ...

Suggested Answers and Hints - Chapter 7 The sequence the-friends cannot move without the PP complement, as the DP that includes ...

Check Questions Chapter
Check Questions Q1 Government is a structural configuratin under which e.g. case is assigned. A head g ...

Suggested Answers and Hints - Chapter 8 the subject of the lower clause and when the lower clause is non-finite there is no pote ...

Exercise 1
Exercise 1 a- adjective, b-participle; c-participle/continuous aspect; d-participle/continuous aspect; e-gerund; f- ...

Suggested Answers and Hints - Chapter 8 c them = Mary and Fanny or them = other people Them is a personal pronoun therefore ther ...

Exercise 4 possible antecedent in the previous clause because it can refer to a male person as discussed above. On the other han ...

Suggested Answers and Hints - Chapter 8 (ii) In sentence (1b) there are two verbs, persuade and kill. Persuade is a three- place ...

Exercise 6 (v) In sentence (1e) there are two predicates: expect and win. The surface ordering of the constituents is identical ...

Suggested Answers and Hints - Chapter 8 sentence. It is obvious that in this sentence the problem is not that the movement of th ...

Exercise 9 f [PRO] To err is human. arbitrary control g Mary tried [PRO] to feed the elephants. subject control h The teacher pl ...

Suggested Answers and Hints - Chapter 8 (3) CP C' C IP DP 2 I' John I vP was 1 v' v vP t 1 v' v VP believe 3 v (IP) V' -en V t 3 ...

Exercise 9 IP t 2 I' I vP v' v vP to v' v vP have t 2 v' v vP v 5 v vP PP steal 4 v -en t 2 v' from the library e t 5 VP DP V' t ...

Suggested Answers and Hints - Chapter 8 The structure of sentence (1b) is quite similar to that in (1a). The main verb assume, b ...

Exercise 9 IP t 4 I' I vP v' v vP to v' v vP be vP PP v' by taxi v VP take 3 +en t 4 V' V PP t 3 to the cinema ...

Suggested Answers and Hints - Chapter 8 In (1c) want is a two-place predicate. It takes an agent and a propositional argument. T ...

Exercise 9 In sentence (1d) the main verb think takes two arguments: an experiencer, which occupies the specifier of the vP and ...

Suggested Answers and Hints - Chapter 8 CP 4 t 10 C' C IP ø DP 5 I' John I vP would v' v vP like 6 t 5 v' v VP t 6 VP (CP 7 ) t ...

Exercise 9 CP 7 C' C IP PRO 8 I' I vP v' v vP to vP PP t 8 v' P' v VP P t 10 dance 9 +e V' with V t 9 ...

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