Theoretical Grammar (Seminar 4)

Identify the exocentric phrase:

• a) to drive north  

• b) blue with cold  

• c) for you      

• d) forty years ago  

The syntactic relation in the phrase ‘a book of poetry’ is expressed by means   of:

• agreement     

• government      

• adjoinment     

• prepositional connection

Choose the one-member sentence:

• “Won’t you dine with me?” 

• “Yes. Where?”   

• How sad!

Choose the elliptical sentence:

• “How old is she?” 

• “Not fifty yet.”

• The garden full of roses.

Mark the category of the verb that is not predicative:

• aspect

• tense

• mood

• person

Choose the clause containing a secondary predicative construction:

• She could cry without sobbing.

• It isn't a matter of people knowing.

• The crab has run away, leaving his tracks behind him.

Identify the underlined secondary parts of the sentence:

      The shell in my hand is deserted. A little crab ran away, and left me his shell.

• direct object  

• indirect object  

• subject complement  

• predicate complement  

Identify the underlined secondary parts of the sentence:

      The shell in my hand is deserted. A little crab ran away, and left me his shell.

• direct object  

• indirect object  

• subject complement  

• predicate complement  

Identify the underlined secondary parts of the sentence:

      The shell in my hand is deserted. A little crab ran away, and left me his shell.

• direct object  

• indirect object  

• subject complement  

• predicate complement  

Identify the underlined secondary parts of the sentence:

      The shell in my hand is deserted. A little crab ran away, and left me his shell.

• direct object  

• indirect object  

• subject complement  

• predicate complement