Kit 2

1 Word Classes

2 Simple Sentences

3 Compound and Complex Sentences

4 Adjective Clauses

5 Noun Clauses

6 Adverbial Clauses

1 Word classes

exercise 1.1

• Analyze the following simple sentences into sentence parts in the usual way.

• Indicate the word class of each underlined word: noun, n; adjective, adj; adverb, adv; verb, v; pronoun, prn; preposition, prep.

1. The recent elections in Hong Kong have produced an encouraging result.

2. The riots on housing estates in Tyneside last week had led to 261 arrests.

3. All criminal charges against Oliver North were dropped on Monday.

4. In the first two days of ground fighting, three brigades of the First Division destroyed Iraqi trenches with earth movers and ploughs.

5. Construction unions in New York have long been criticized for their exclusion of racial minority groups.

6. For over 50 years Barney has been helping people with their hair and scalp problems.

7. Cleo the Camel now won’t eat anything except smoked salmon sandwiches.

8. The panel will meet twice during the campaign.

exercise 1.2

Find prepositional phrases

1. The apparent unease about the growing presence of Latinos also is reflected in a torrent of anti-immigration legislation introduced recently in Sacramento.

2. Statistics Canada warned that the April decline may simply be a correction of inflated job gains in March.

3. In his native Malaysia, he faces extortion charges alleging a series of encounters with lonely, wealthy women who said they were lured into hotel rooms, drugged, photographed nude, then blackmailed.

4. The estimated cost of developing the advanced robotic arms has ballooned by nearly $138 million in the past three years.

5. Striking Winnipeg emergency room doctors have reached a settlement with the province of Manitoba.

6. The negotiations have made slow progress during the past two months with attempts by the Inkatha Freedom Party, homeland leaders, and the white right-wing parties to block significant movement.

7. Each day, if the wind is not too strong, some of the Druze gather at the place called “echo valley” outside Majdal Shams to shout messages to their family and friends who stand several hundred meters away on the Syrian side of the ceasefire line.

8. There are several reasons why the recruitment and organizing may not be as vigorous in the rest of the country.

exercise 1.3

Find noun phrases

1. Belet Uen is a dusty crossroads in central Somalia.

2. Mary entered a brush-hut encampment of 30,000 victims of drought, famine and war.

3. The only significant growth sector for low-skill workers will be the service industry.

4. A third of Quebeckers on welfare are under thirty.

5. During his six-month tenure as Education Minister, he also segregated men and women in the ministry and boys and girls in high schools.

6. The rift between the former allies was not resolved by President Yeltsin’s victory in the April referendum.

7. An outbreak of meningitis at the University of Connecticut has been classified as an epidemic.

8. The highly charged assassination case produced widely divergent interpretations of the evidence.