EXCEPTIONS TO THE LAST LEXICAL ITEM RULE

1. Event sentences
The `waters running
2. Nouns + Infinitives
Ive got a couple of `letters to write
3. Wh-questions ending with a verb
How much `sugar do you add?
Whose `advise did you follow?
What `brand do you buy?
4. Final relative clauses
What about that `story you were telling me?
This is the `doctor I was telling you about.
5. Nouns+adjectives/participles
He left the `door open.
Keep your `eyes shut.
How often do you have your `house painted?
6. Transitive verbs + object + verbal particle
Keep your `head down.
Dont forget to put your `clock back.
7. Indirect questions
You cant imagine how much `effort Mark put into it.
8. Subject + passive verb
`Classes have been cancelled!
The missing `link has been found.
9. Objects of general reference Nouns of wide denotation

place, thing, person, colour, time, boy, girl, street.

I must ex`plain matters.
Lets go to `my place. Vs. Lets go round to my `office.
10. Final vocatives
Your `taxis waiting, love.
Good `morning, doctor.
11. Final reporting clauses
I dont want to go `out, he said.
12. Final adverbials
12.a. Adverbials of time and place
Autumn seems to be arriving `early this year.
Theres a `fly in my soup.

12.b. Adverbials of courtesy (please & thanks), degree (down-toners or intensifiers)

and proper functioning
Ive really had e`nough thank you.
Im just going `out for a bit. (down-toners: reject nucleus)
She lost her head com`pletely. (intensifier: attract nucleus)
(also informal intensifiers: this or that. It wasnt `that bad.)
She cant `hear properly.
Do you think itll `work O.K.
12.c. Sentence adverbials (disjuncts, like naturally, fortunately, basically; & conjuncts,
like though, for instance, rather)
Prices went `up, unfortunately (or with another IP and a rise on unfortunately).
Its a questions of e`quality, basically. (idem)
All of our friends are going to the `Lake District. We are going to the `seaside, though
(or separate IP and rise)
RP is not a dialect, but an `accent, rather. (! same IP)
12.d. Sentence vs. non-sentence adverbials
I went `home, happily. (disjunct)
I went home `happily (manner adjunct)
13. Other patterns in broad and narrow focus
13.a. Fossilized expressions
to keep ones `fingers crossed
13.b. Any- in negative statements
I dont think Im for`getting anything.
BUT Im not forgetting `anything.
13.c. Reflexive (unaccented) vs. emphatic pronouns (accented)
He wont worry unless you `hurt yourself.
I have to see it for my`self.