Course: Advanced Syntax
FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Section 2: Clauses and Sentences
Exercise 1: Identify the right types of the following structures:
adjective phrase (AP) prepositional phrase (PP)
adverb phrase (AdvP) participial phrase (PartP)
noun phrase (NP) infinitive phrase (InfP)
1. to earn money for his birthday
2. a perfect plan to win the race
3. most importantly
4. salty and spicy
5. an extremely reserved man responsible for the explosion
6. responsible for the explosion
7. to come down the road
8. safe to climb up
9. highly attentive to the speaker
10. too many interesting books decorated by colorful pictures
11. decorated by colorful pictures
12. this belief that the company was not making a profit
13. the cow standing in the meadow
14. standing in the meadow
15. plenty of reserved seats in the restaurant
16. a lot of applicants gathering in front of the building
17. gathering in front of the building
18. in front of the building
19. a great deal of tireless effort to complete this project
20. to complete this project
21. so heavily
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Course: Advanced Syntax
Exercise 2: Name the verb categories and the syntactic functions/ positions of these
underlined parts:
1. She ordered her belowed mother a birthday cake.
2. I find his recent song deeply emotional.
3. For Sandra to delay her graduation is unnecessary.
4. The high building stands next to the beautiful national park.
5. Their chosen monitor looks active and responsible.
6. My brother put his shoes on the shoe rack.
7. Does he consider himself a genius?
8. She became what she had hoped.
9. The water feels warm.
10. I could feel the tension in the room.
11. The trumpet sounded.
12. The doctor sounded the patient’s chest.
13. She sounded the person we need for the job.
14. Tom baked a cake for Mary.
15. Tom baked a cake for Christmas.
16. He called me an angel.
17. He called me a taxi.
18. I’ll make you my first spokesperson.
19. I’ll make you a pizza.
20. The mould grew quickly.
21. The contestant grew confident during the competition.
