Roberts All Chapters; Analysing_web_exercise_answers

Solutions Manual for Analysing Sentences, 5e Noel Burton Roberts (All Chapters; Analysing_web_exercise_answers and ANSWERS_further_exercises ) Analysing Sentences. Answers to web exercises Chapter 1.

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Phrase early next week

will come Q: When will she come early?

A: Next week.

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Phrase Phrase

will come early Phrase Q: When will she come?

A: Early next week.

next week

• Phrase (It’s a broth containing spicy chicken.)

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spicy chicken

Phrase (It is spicy broth containing chicken.)

noodles Phrase

in Phrase

spicy Phrase

chicken broth

• For example:[A silencer on the gun][would be a good idea]. As my brackets show, this

sentence has the same overall structure as [old Sam] [sunbathed beside a stream]. See Exercise 6. 1 / 4

Chapter 2.

1.

• [His friends] [disappeared]
• [Term] [has already started]
• [This steak] [ is much too raw for me]
• [His ideas on plumbing] [were beginning to bore her]
• [The books I bought the other day] [have been eaten by the dog]
• [John's confessions in the bar that evening] [caused a sensation]
• [The president] [is refusing to give photographic evidence of what he was up to in

The Oval Office]

• [October the fifteenth] [would be the best date]
• [The printer in my office] [hasn’t worked for months]
• [Harry and his mates on the building site] [are thinking of having a drink together

tonight]

• (a) = 4. (b) = 2. (c) = 1. (d) = 2 or 4. (e) = 3.

In (d) 2 it’s the dogs that are little; in (d) 4 it’s the trainers.

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Chapter 3.

1.at P funfair N cheekily Adv invited V Granny N go N on P the Art fastest A ride N she pronoun was V wise A politely Adv declined V preference N for P a Art lovely A hot A cup N of P tea N less Deg frightening A expensive A stood V better A chance N keeping V false A teeth N firmly Adv in P head N reluctantly Adv helped V her pronoun to P café N bought V drink N drank V then Adv very Deg noisily Adv rather Deg embarrassed A took V shoes N laid V them pronoun table N began V massage V weary A feet N he pronoun pretended V noticed V

2.

(a) Our brand-new ophthalmology centre. Head: centre.

(b) Basic eye tests for the early detection of injury and disease

(c) Eye, tests, detection, injury, disease. Head: tests.

(d) [For the early detection [of injury and disease]].[With our truly massive investment [in equipment]].(e) Brand-new, fully open, basic, early, truly massive, future.

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Chapter 4.

• Verb subcat complement(s)

docked intrans - waited prep for the bus (PC) took trans a taxi (dO) arrived intrans - felt intens really tired (sP) needed trans food (dO) cooked ditrans the kids (iO), their supper (dO) went prep to bed (PC) made complex the rest of us (dO), more cheerful (oP)

2. S

S and S

NP VP NP VP

we V NP NP they V PP [ditrans] [prep] the kids their supper P NP cooked went to bed S

NP VP

a few glasses of wine V NP AP [complex] the rest of us more cheerful made 3.

• The car turned into a side street. [prep]+PC
• The magician turned my handkerchief into a rabbit. [complex]+oP
• The handkerchief turned into a rabbit. [intens]+sP
• He always insisted on high standards. [prep]+PC
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