Uppsala University
Department of English
A1/HS1/T1 Grammar
Autumn/Fall Term 2015
Language Structure Assignment 1: Key to Self-study
Grammar Tasks
Task 1
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2)
ODD, odd, odd, was verb Lenina’s noun verdict on Bernard Marx. So odd,
indeed, that in preposition the course of the succeeding weeks she had
wondered verb more than once whether she shouldn’t change her mind
about the New Mexico noun holiday, and go instead to the North Pole
with Benito Hoover. The trouble was that conjunction she knew the North
Pole, had been there with George Edzel only last summer, and what was
more, found it pretty adverb grim. Nothing to do, and the hotel too
hopelessly old-fashioned – no pronoun television laid on in the bedrooms,
no scent noun organ, only the most putrid synthetic adjective music, and
not more than twenty-five numeral Escalator-Squash Courts for over two
hundred guests. No, decidedly she couldn’t face the North Pole again.
Added to which, she had only been to America once before. And even
then adverb, how inadequately! A cheap week-end in New York – had it
been with Jean-Jacques Habibullah or Bokanovsky Jones? She couldn’t
remember. Anyhow, it pronoun was of absolutely no importance. The
prospect of flying verb West again, and for a whole week, was very
adverb inviting. Moreover, for at least three days noun of that week they
would verb be in the Savage Reservation. Not more than half a dozen
people in the whole Centre had ever been inside preposition a Savage
Reservation. As an Alpha-Plus psychologist, Bernard was one of the few
men she knew entitled to a permit noun. For Lenina, the opportunity was
unique adjective. And yet, so unique also was Bernard’s oddness noun
that she had hesitated to take it, had actually adverb thought of risking the
Pole again with funny old Benito.
“At that pronoun moment,” Iran said, “when I had the TV sound off, I
was in a 382 mood; I had verb just dialled it. So although conjunction I
heard the emptiness intellectually adverb, I didn’t feel it. My pronoun first
reaction consisted of preposition being grateful that we could afford a
Penfield mood organ. But then I realized how unhealthy it was, sensing
the absence of life, not just in this building but everywhere, and not
reacting – do you see? I guess you don’t. But that used to be considered
verb a sign of mental adjective illness; they called it ‘absence of
appropriate affect’. So I left the TV sound off and conjunction I sat down
at preposition my mood organ and I experimented. And I finally found a
setting for despair noun.”
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Uppsala University
Department of English
A1/HS1/T1 Grammar
Autumn/Fall Term 2015
Task 2
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The bees | were buzzing.
Eeyore | is listening.
Pooh | lives | in the Seven-Acre Wood.
We | must bring | provisions.
I | was forgetting | Eeyore.
We | really | must be going | home.
Outside his house | he | found | Piglet.
I | brought | a little present.
Piglet | brought | Eeyore | a balloon.
Pooh and Piglet | were listening | very eagerly.
Pooh | put | his head | between his paws.
Piglet | felt | very miserable.
He | was | good company.
My tail | is | cold.
Christopher | made | his mother | sad.
The animals | made | him | their leader.
Kanga | got | the bath water | ready.
I | must give | him | something.
They | had seen | something very exciting.
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S|V
S|V
S|V|A
S|V|Od
S|V|Od
S|A|V|A
A|S|V|Od
S|V|Od
S|V|Oi|Od
S|V|A
S|V|Od|A
S|V|Ps
S|V|Ps
S|V|Ps
S|V|Od|Po
S|V|Od|Po
S|V|Od|Po
S|V|Oi|Od
S|V|Od
Uppsala University
Department of English
A1/HS1/T1 Grammar
Autumn/Fall Term 2015
Task 3
Noun phrases are underlined in the sentences and then analysed on separate lines.
1)
That man took Elizabeth’s purse.
i)
That | man
D|H
ii) Elizabeth’s | purse
D|H
2)
Can you read my handwriting?
i)
you
H
ii) my | handwriting
D|H
3)
I would like to buy some chocolate now.
i)
I
H
ii) some | chocolate
D|H
4)
Don’t tell lies!
i)
lies
H
5)
The woman in the garden is my mother’s cousin.
i)
The | woman | in the garden
D|H|POST
ii) my mother’s | cousin
D|H
6)
Dogs are my favourite animals.
i)
Dogs
H
ii) my | favourite | animals
D|PRE|H
7)
New cars which run on ethanol are better for the environment.
i)
New | cars | which run on ethanol
PRE|H|POST
ii) the | environment
D|H
8)
In a 16th-century treatise on alchemy, the author tried to explain how lead
could be turned into precious metals.
i)
a | 16th-century | treatise | on alchemy D|PRE|H|POST
ii) the | author
D|H
iii) lead
H
iv) precious | metals
PRE|H
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Uppsala University
Department of English
A1/HS1/T1 Grammar
Autumn/Fall Term 2015
Task 4
a.
b.
1)
have (the head is owners)
2)
are (the head is answers)
3)
suspect (the head is owners)
4)
has (the head is owner)
5)
are (the heads are brother and friend = they)
6)
complains (the head is neighbour)
7)
have (the heads are mother and father = they)
8)
belong (the head is books)
9)
have (the head is details)
10) is (the head is accident)
Verb forms that have been changed are italicized.
11) A successful pianist practices every day.1 It is easy to forget to add -(e)s to
verbs whose infinitive form already ends in an /s/, like practice.
12) We can now see horrible pictures that show how people suffer in these
countries. The subject of show is the relative pronoun that, which is plural
because it refers back to the plural antecedent horrible pictures; but it is easy
to forget that that can be either singular or plural as a relative pronoun.
People is an invariable plural and thus requires a plural verb form, but
learners frequently forget that invariable plurals such as people and police
are plural.
13) These problems in last year’s course have still not been dealt with. The
head of the subject noun phrase these problems in last year’s course is the
plural noun problems, so the verb form have has to be in the plural.
However, a postmodifier that contains a singular noun, such as course in in
last year’s course, may cause learners to use a singular verb form.
14) They are always nice to you and try to do their best to help. When and
co-ordinates two clauses that have the same subject (they in [14]), the
subject is usually left out in the second clause (… and they try to …)
because it is understood from the first clause. However, this can make it
easier to forget which verb form should be used in the second clause.
Practice is the AmE spelling; in BrE, the verb is usually spelt practise, while the spelling practice is
used for the noun.
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