Revision Test yourself:

I. Fill in the blanks:

1. Predication is relating the denoted event to reality through the grammatical categories of … .

2. The characteristics of the sentence as a predicative unit are … .

3. Depending on the number of predicative lines sentences may be … .

4. The secondary parts of the sentence include … .

5. Actual division of the sentence implies its parsing into 2 parts: the theme-part, which conveys … information and the rheme-part, which conveys … information.

6. According to the purpose of communication all sentences are divided into following groups: … .

7. The complex sentence is derived from 2 sentences, one of which becomes … and the other … .

8. The semi-complex sentences with position-sharing can be of the following types: … .

9. The domain of text grammar are the following text categories: … .

10. Depending on the place of a connector in a sequence the sentence connection can be either … or … .

II. Identify the character of subordinate relations in the following phrases

choosing from Agreement (Ag), Government (G), Adjoining (Ad) and

Enclosure (E):

1. follow him; b) these trees; c) to move rapidly; d) a bag of yours;

3. an empty tank.

III. Provide an example of your own for each type of phrase:

1. a simple subordinate nounal attributive phrase with prepositional adjunct

with prepositional adjoining;

2. a complex coordinate syndetic adverbial phrase;

3. a complex coordinate predicative phrase with agreement and with subordinate objective non-prepositional adjunct with government.

IV. Identify the case of the underlined words in terms of the role grammar:

1. Stephan has made several trips.

2. It was evident to me.

3. Alan was picking flowers.

4. The hall seats 1000 people.

V. Reveal the deep structure of the sentence:

The article to be translated is available at any library.

VI. Identify the formal means of rheme-introduction:

1. Reggie almost died a few years ago.

2. Smiling she was closing the door.

3. This was after the divorce when she really was in bad shape.

4. You have to talk to him not for yourself, but for your son.

VII. Identify the type of relation between the clauses. Choose from Disjunctive

(D), Adversative (A), Copulative (C), Consequential (CQ) relation:

1. Consider the matter carefully, your decision will be final.

2. Either Mr. Wilson or Mr. Yomez will be the adviser for the computer club.

3. She was eager to get an early start and began packing the night before.

4. He ended his career of a spy, but kept some of the habits.

5. We have to look for a new house and you wait for Andy’s phonecall.

VIII. Identify the type of the sentences. Use the following abbreviations: S

(simple), C (complex), CD (compound), SC (semi-complex), and SCD

(semi-compound):

1. The survivors knew that the rescue was many days away.

2. The mayor seemed certain to be reelected.

3. The beaches are beautiful and uncrowded, and the sun shines most of the time.

4. The suspect went to the police station and turned himself in.

IX. Identify the type of connection in the sentences, given below. Specify the

type of a connector.

1. My Dad was drinking one night at home, and we could tell he was

about to get out of hand. We could always tell.

2. We are almost certain that Mark Sway knows more than he is telling.

We feel quite strongly that he is withholding valuable information.

3. The last time I hugged him was when he graduated from school. I still

keep this hug deep in my heart.

4. Ricky had just touched the handle. He froze for a second.

X. From the following text write out the numbers of the sentences which

have a) parallel connection, b) sequential connection.

Example: a) 5-6-7, 2-3 b) 8-9

(1) He stood in front of the phone, and cut his eyes in all directions.

(2) To the average person, the sight of Barry the Blade’s eyes cutting and darting and searching for violence, would make the blood run cold in the veins. (3) The eyes were very dark brown, and so close together that if one could stand to look directly into them for more than two seconds he would swear Barry was cross-eyed. (4) But he wasn’t. (5) The shady eyes confessed many hangovers, among other things. (6) The Blade loved his eyes. (7) He adored them. (8) He thought they were legendary.

XI. Identify the event types which receive conflated representation in the given

sentences:

1. The car buzzed down the road.

2.He dozed his way into the new cut, woke and dozed again.

3. She danced out of the room.

4.I zig-zagged /circled/ through the woods.

5.Virginia begins to unpin her hair, carefully counting the hairpins into a

matchbox.

6. I straight-armed the door open.

7. He joked his way into the party.

XII.State the type of the syntactic construction in the

given examples (use A.Goldberg’s classification: the

ditransitive construction, the resultative construction,

the caused-motion construction, the “way” construction):

1.Joe loaned Bob a lot of money.

2.They laughed the poor guy out of the room.

3. The music lent the party a festive relief.

4.They sprayed the paint onto the wall.

5. Frank dug his way out of the prison.

6.Harry locked Joe into the bathroom.

7.He kept her at arm’s length.

8.Troops have been shooting their way through

angry, unarmed mobs.

9. I had brushed my hair smooth.

10. You killed it stone-dead.

11. Joe bought his way into the exclusive country club.

12.She laughed herself crooked.