Basic English Grammar with Exercises

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Exercise 2

Determine the subcategory of the verbs in the following sentences. Justify your choice

with the help of different distributional tests. Finally, give their syntactic structure as

well.

(1) a A face appeared behind the window.

b Susan sang.

c Michael moved my map from the middle.

d The bomb blew up.

e Larry laughed.

f Kevin killed Karen.

g Ben brought a bulldog for Betty.

h Norah knows Nick.

i The boat sank.

j The letter lay on the table.

k The window opened.

l A train arrived at the station.

m Walt watered the flowers.

n Dick died.

o Gary gave Greg a gift.

Exercise 3

Provide the given forms of verbs.

Verb Tense Aspect Person

&

number

Voice Form

see past perfect 3Sg passive

saw present progressive 1Pl active

bring future perfect 2Sg passive

come present perfect 3Pl active

think past progressive 2Sg active

sing future perfect 3Sg passive

read present progressive 3Pl passive

write past perfect 3Sg passive

eat future progressive 1Sg active

fall past perfect 3Sg passive

buy present perfect 2Sg active

tell past progressive 3Pl passive

pull future progressive 2Pl active

go past perfect 3Sg active

send future perfect 3Pl passive