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TASK 5 LUIS CAÑADILLA PONS
UNIT 3: THE CLAUSE
- Identify all the finite verbs in each of the following sentences.
a. Having left early, we will certainly arrive before the concert starts.
b. I believe him to be one of the greatest writers of our times.
c. If I had never shaved, my beard would have been a meter long by now!
d. She enjoyed writing down her private thoughts in the diary she kept.
- Which of the following questions are ungrammatical? How would you correct the ungrammatical ones?
a. Why DO Lucy and Priscilla always listen to jazz?
b. When did she noticed the difference in her mother’s health?
c. What on earth are you talking about? (Correct)
d. How many apples DID you bought today?
e. Where in Madrid CAN good flamenco can be heard?
- Negate the following sentences with the negative word supplied in brackets:
a. Is Helen your wife? (not)
Is Helen not your wife?
b. Martin lost his temper very often. (n’t)
Martin didn’t lose his temper very often.
c. I drink coffee in the evenings. (never)
I never drink coffee in the evenings.
d. Could you turn up the music? (not)
Could you not turn up the music?
e. I have been in such an embarrassing situation. (rarely).
I have rarely been in such an embarrassing situation.
f. (Julia suggested that) we participate in the conference. (not)
Julia suggested that we not participate in the conference.
g. I like to read something romantic and sentimental. (n’t)
I don’t like to read anything romantic or sentimental.
h. Please do that again. (n’t)
Please don’t do that again.
- Add appropriate tag questions to the following clauses:
a. Let’s get out of here shall we?
b. Everyone agreed, didn’t they?
c. Henry isn’t progressing well, is he?
d. He does believe in God, doesn’t he?
e. I am going to be late, aren’t I?
f. There are three peaches left, aren’t there?
g. I think it’s going to rain, isn’t it?
h. He’s hardly fit to play, is he?
i. Come over here, will you?
e. I don’t like the heat. –Oh, I do. I find it stimulating.
- Constituents that have the syntactic function of Subject can have various semantic roles.
Say in which sentences below the Subject has the role of agent, in which sentences below the
Subject has the role of 'patient' [also called 'affected' or 'victim'] and in which it has the role of
instrument:
a. Robin was beaten up in a pub last night. (patient)
b. The vegetables have now been cooking for 30 minutes. (patient)
c. Why did you put your desk near the window? (agent)
d. These books won't sell. (patient)
e. Your key won't open my car. (instrument)
f. The policeman kicked one of the demonstrators on the shins. (agent)
g. Five pounds will buy you a very good meal in this restaurant. (instrument)
h. The prisoners were executed at dawn. (patient)
i. This tap turns easily. (patient)
j. The doctor examined me for half an hour. (agent)
- Is the italicised expression in the following examples an object or a predicative (complement), i.e. Cs or Co?
a. That sounds a great idea. CS
b. The guard sounded the alarm. CO
c. The inspector looked them up on his return. CO
d. They look decent enough people. CS
e. She made a first-rate treasurer. CS
f. She taught herself Greek. CO
- Some of the following clauses contain subject complements, others object complements. Identify each:
a. Leave him alone. CS
b. What will they call the baby? CO
c. Life is a series of accidents. That's what he thinks. CS
d. He made his films accessible to a wide public. CO
e. The weather has turned unexpectedly cold lately. CS
f. Make the coffee a bit stronger, would you? CO
g. They found Winston's sense of humour rather disconcerting. CS
- Is the italicised word in the following examples a particle (forming a complement of the
verb on its own) or a preposition (head of a PP in which the following NP is complement)?
a. She looked up all the references. Particle
b. He ruled out any compromise. Particle
c. It depends on the time of the day. Preposition
d. I didn’t take in the significance of what had happened. Particle
e. They came across the meadow. Particle
f. They came across a few problems. Preposition
