Models for Syntactic Analysis

Home Assignment 3 (Syntax)

Models for Syntactic Analysis

Sample of the Syntactic Analysis of the Simple Sentence

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(1) Having spent a sleepless night, he was unable to concentrate.

It’s a simple two-member complete sentence.

He – subject

was unable to concentrate – compound modal predicate

Having spent a sleepless night – adverbial of reason expressed by an subordinate objective phrase

Sample of the Syntactic Analysis of the Composite Sentence

1 2 3

When I got home | it was too late |and I did not see Miss Barkley until the next morning.

This is a composite sentence because it contains more than one unit of finite predication. The sentence consists of three clauses. It is a compound-complex sentence because the clauses stand in relations of idependence and those of dependence.

(1) When I got home is a subordinate time clause

(2 ) it was too late is the first principal (co-ordinate) clause

(3) I did not see Miss Barkley until the next morning is the second principal clause

The scheme of the sentence:

Practical tasks

1. State the type of the following phrases:

1) think of an idea, 2) almost insignificant, 3) cakes and ale, 4) feel foolish, 5) came in to ask, happy but not quite, 6) the I-am-sorry response, 7) a little girl, 8) laugh a little, 9) kicking off the shoes, 10) for us to expect, 11) a cat licking milk, 12) London street, 13) these cities, 14) a man having no scruples, 15) for him and people to come, 16) them dance in the park, 17) came and went, 18)

2. Analyse the following sentences according to the given models:

1. He never expected a theatre to be run on such business-like lines.
2. I’m getting scripts every day for you to read.
3. To draw one does not need big muscles.
4. Suddenly, all the differences between life and death became apparent
5. I’m getting scripts every day for you to read.
6. As a nation we are still excessively burning fossil fuels, doing damage to our planet that will hurt our children's lives and future generations as well.
7. As I have already told you, they are just friends.
8. To draw one does not need big muscles.
9. Ambridge is the only place you can return to after six months and find that nothing whatsoever has happened.
10. Suddenly, all the differences between life and death became apparent.

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