17. Subjectless imperative clauses have traditionally been assumed to have
an understood second person subject. What reasons are there for
supposing that seemingly subjectless imperatives have an understood
second person null subject?
A) Shut the window
B) Go and take the coffee
C) Stand still there
D) Go to bed
e) Don’t come close to the snake.
18. Parse the following underlined nouns in the text.
Indoors the fire was sinking and the room was dark red.
The woman put her saucepan on the hob, and set a batter pudding near the mouth of the oven.
19. Identify each grammatical prefix or suffix as inflectional or derivational.
He rereads books on The Theoretical Grammar several times.
She recovered herself and walked quickly along with the miner.
20. Often sentences expressing the same proposition can be realized in a
variety of ways, one way of expressing a proposition is marked and the
other is unmarked. Point out the marked and unmarked categories in the
following sentences.
a) There had been Winifred and his children.
b) The earth and stones and fragments of earth.
c) They accepted him as the inevitable.
d) The boy saw the farmer.
e) The farmer was seen by the boy.
f) The doctor was out when they arrived at the doctor’s house.
g) He went downstairs and ate his meal alone.
Practical Tasks № 1 (типовые задания):
Typical Tasks- Syntax (синтаксис)
21. A small clause is a phrase that has a clausal or
(Propositional) interpretation, but lacks the full inflectional
morphology a sentence. Point put small clauses in the
following examples.
A) I consider her intelligent.
B) I imagined her solving this problem.
C) I consider that she is a genius.
D) He watched the teacher give sharp orders.
E) He saw his hands trembling.
22. Point out the syntactic conditions under which anaphoric elements
can be referentially dependent on potential antecedents:
When he opened his eyes again he started seeing something creeping swiftly up a tree-trunk. It was a little bird. And it was whistling overhead. Tap-tap-tap it was the small, quick bird rapping the tree-trunk.
23. State the categorical status of the “that clauses”.
a) He walked on staring at the mountains that rose sheer out of the land.
b) That he was arriving none of the servants knew.
c) He regretted now that he had been rather cold with her.
d) He could feel that the officer was nervous.
e) At the moment It was necessary that he spoke out his mind.
24. Give assumptions on the two types of the schematic form.
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