Career:AppliedLinguistics In English Program

Subject:GrammarTransformational

Student'sname: Oswaldo Zhiminaicela

Teacher'sname:MSc. Mara Llumiquinga

Date: 09/01/2016

Semester:October 2015-February

Learningactivity 2.1
a)Look at thetreediagramsonpages 134 and 135 whichdealwiththedeletion
of theRelativeClause.
a) Look at page 134 135 as a reference and make 2 treediagrams: one
of thematrixclause, and one of theseparatedrelativeclause of
thesentence:

S
VP: Pred
NP: Subj

RelCI:Adj
VP: Pred
NP:DObj

NP :Head

Pre ph :Adv-place

NP:SubjMV:PresDet

NP:Subj
N

MV:Pres
N

BE Art

RelPronVT

NPrep

Mercer SullivanisananthropologistwhostudiesyouthcrimeinBrooklin

RelCL:Adj

VP:Pred
NP:Dobj
NP:Subj

RelPron

MV.Pres

VT

Whostudiesyouthcrime

PrepPh:Adv-place

in

PrepPropN

Brooklin

Prop N

b) Deletingtherelativeclause.

NP:Subj
RelCL:Adj
VP:Pred

VP:Pred

NP:HeadNP:SubjMV:PassiveNP: DObjMV:PastPrepPh:Adv-place

Det

NP

Art
N RelPron
V willPrepPropN

BE

VT Adj

Thecowsthatwerestolenfrom
Utah.

Colorado ranches

wound up

Learningactivity 2.2.
a) Rearrangethetreediagram.
a) Look at page 171 as a reference and use thesentenceChildren are
unnervedbyparentswhosufferjobdistress,deletetherelativeclause,
and makethetreediagram.

S
NP:Sunj

VP:Pred

MV:Passive
NP:Head
Aux
N
Children

BE
are

PrepPh:Adj
VT

Prep

unnervedbyparentsWhosufferjobdistress

in

b) Analyzingsentencestoidentifygrammaticalfunctions.
c) Followtheexampleon page 207 toanalyze 2 sentenceson page 208;
sentences N. 18 and 20. Please do notmaketreediagrams.

18. WalkingdownMain Street can be dangerousafterdark

Thegerundphraseis: walkingdownMain Street, itfunctinos as thesubject of
thesentence. The head of thegerunphraseistheintransitiveverbwalkfollowedby a
prepositionalphrase, downMainStreet,thatfunctions as adveb of place.
Themainverb of thesentence ,BE , is preceded bytheauxularcan. Theadjective,
dagerousafterdarkfunctionsas thepredicateadjective.

20. Ittakesskill and luckfor a gamblertowin at blackjack

Thenounclause ,ittakesskill and luckfor a gambler, functions as thesubject of
thesentence.

The

head

of

thenounclauseisthetransitveverbtakefollowedbynounphrase,skill and luckfor a

gamble, thatfunctions as thedirectobject. Themainverb of thesentence,
towin ,is a two-place transitiveVc. Thenounphrase , at blackjackfuctions as
theObjectComplement.
Learningactivity 2.3
a) Make e treediagram of: I sawanaccidentwhen I wasdrivingtoschool.
S

MClause
Clause

NP: Subj
Dobj

Clause :Adv-time

VP: Pred

NP: Subj

MV: PastDet
Pron

VT

Art

VP: Pred

MV:Past Progres
NSubord

Pron BE

I sawanaccidentwhenI wasdrivingtoschool.

GerunPrep

NP:

b) Usingsubordinatorsto introduce adverbial clauses.

b) Byusingthesubordinatorson page 231, make 5
AdverbClausesonyourown.
Rafael Correa, before he becamepresident of Ecuador, becameminister.
Becausesome buses drivers drive so fast, citizensgetinjured.
Mary willgraduatesoonifshestudieshard.
When i thinkaboutmygirlfriend, i imagine hernextto me.
Ifyou do notunderstandthetopic, youwill no ableto master it.
Learningactivity 2.4.
a) Identifyingadjectival and adverbial clauses.
a) Writefiveadjectivalclauses.

Mypuppy, thatit has a browndot, istobig.

The training, this Mike teaches, is so hard.
Mymoney, whichit are onlythreedollars, isenoughfor a coffee.
Thegirlwholivesnextdoor, is so pretty.
Themanwhomyougivethepackage, is a spy.
b) Explainthe position, function and othercharacteristics of
thenonrestrictiveadjectiveclauses.
b) Look at page 220 and explainthe position and function of a
nonrestrictiveAdjectivebyusingyourownwords.

Nonrestrictiveadjectiveclauses

describe

orgivebackgroundinformationto

nounorpronoun. Commas are needed at he beginning and end of theclause. Its

position is in thefirstclause (Proddedbypublicopinion) ,butitisnotthemainclause.
(threesenatorsreversedtheir

vote

onthe

controversial

ItsfunctionistomodifytheNPsreference, itisaddedwithinmatrixclause.
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