I.

Determine syntactic functions

1. [People of all ages] [believe] [they will change careers at some point in the future]

2. [Celebrities] [are gabbing] [about it] [openly]

3. [Nora Shourd's phone message box] [was] [full] [when the AP tried reaching her for the
commenting]

4. [Fortunately] [the mother of them missing man] [informed] [us] [that her son had just
called her]

5. [The alarm] [was raised] [by the man's friend who grew anxious after the darkness fell]

6. [Van Sant, whose credits include ...... and „To die for“] [spoke] [to Reuters] [about making
the film]

7. [The important point] [is] [that women deserve respect in any profession]

8. [This] [is] [Henry Hopper's first film]

9. [Rex Ryan's cavalier attitude toward profanity in public forum] [lead] [to a „loose....“]

10. [We] [have to make] [the company] [profitable]

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1. [Sarah Shroud] [has been released] [after more than a year of tense negotiations]

2. [Shroud and her two friends] [were detained] [along the Iran-Iraq border] [on July 31,
2009]

3. ponovljena

4. [Associated Press Writer Gretchen Ehlike in Milwaukee] [contributed] [to his report]

5. [Defensive tackle Kris Jenkins] [also] [reportedly] [told] [Sainz] [that „this is our locker
room!“] when another.... Sainz if she was okay]

6. [I] [visited] [her] [the minute I found out]

7. ponovljena

8. [It]'[s] [uncomfortable] [to have any media in the locker room]

9. ponovljena

10. [We] [have to make] [the working environment] [professional]

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1. [Greece's coast guard] [has picked up] [hundreds of people] [from the sea] [near the
Aegean Islands]

2. [The United States] [would like] [to see Russia engage with the international coalition
fighting the Islamic state militants]

3. [President Obama] [had spoken] [to Russian president Putin] [about the issue].

4. [The two countries] [have been] [in frequent communication].

5. [Kerry] [made] [clear] [that Russia's support for Syrian President al-Assad risks] .....

6. [We] [must remain] [focused] [on finding a solution to the conflict in Syria]

7. [Some 200 Russian naval infantry soldiers] [have been deployed] [to the airfield]

8. [Air force secretary D.James] [described] [the Syria build-up] [as another „worrying series
of events“]

9.[A talented portrait photographer] [has moved on] [from capturing traditional human
subjects] [to photographing of wild animals]

10. [A US university professor who studied geography of crime] [is suspected] [of killing a
woman he lived with]
II. Determine the sytanctic functions
1. President Barrack Obama's interview released on Monday seems out of character

2. It's not matter just a matter of it not being polite to say nigger in public

3. He has gingerly picked his way through a string of political minefield over he last six and a
half years

4. Obama talks about race only when he has to

5. Obama remain more of a commentator on race issues than an activist

6. Oscar winning film composer J.Horned died in a plane crash Monday morning near Santa
Barbra, California

7. Horner wrote many prominent scores, including those for Titanic, Avatar and Brave Heart

8. He was nominated nine time for Academy Awards

9. He wrote me a song that has such special meaning to me

10. Temprature increase allow mosquitos carrying malaria to breed in places that were
previously too cold

11. nije bilo :D

12. The Samsung safety truck, shown in a video, targeted at Argentinian audiences, combines
two well-known technologies, cameras and television screens, to make one big idea: a vehicle
much easier and much safer

13. The Samsung safety truck consists of a semi-truck with a wireless camera on the front and
four outdoors monitors at the back.

14. The camera sends a video feed to the monitors, allowing drivers behind the truck to see if
the road ahead is clear of oncoming traffic.

15. A new type of vehicle was presented in a blog post on Samsung Tomorrow.

16.In addition to warning would-be passers of oncoming traffic, the rear facing monitors
could warn drivers of sudden....

17. Old people are particularly vulnerable to heat waves

18. Hard temperatures make it harder for people to work outside

19. Demand remains strong for some new ideas in the business world

20. I woke up as early as around 3a.m. after hearing the rain come lashing down

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1. They were defeated after a few hours of scattered skirmishes with the army.

2. Gaddafi has called the NATO intervention an act of colonial aggression aimed at grabbing
Libya's plentiful oil.

3. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi faced the prospect of a fresh humiliation on Monday.

4. Although the government had urged its supporters to stay away, turnout was already at 41%
last Sunday.

5. Many of those who have turned out to vote are opposition supporters.

6. He promised his Twitter followers that he would keep them 'updates as search continues'.

7. It's clear that a wave of 'yes' votes will give a shock to his premiership.

8. The nuclear issue has been at the centre of heated debates in recent weeks.

9. Beach resorts in the region around the southern city of Naples are offering rental of two
deckchairs for the price of one for people who have voted.

10.'How I Met Your Mother' star Neil Patrick Harris hosts the Tony Awards for a second year on
Sunday.

11. The Australian Prime Minister Wolfgang Schuessel made clear in press interviews on
Wednesday that he wants to see the same goodwill applied towards Croatia as to Turkey.

12. This change of venue will make it an entirely different show.

13. Feeling cold doesn't affect your immune system

14. The EU has the go ahead to the stabilization agreement despite the fact that Ratko Mladic is
still at large.

15. It's not yet clear whether the detached virus is the deadly H5N1 sub-strain.
16. No amount of reading on Indiamika.com or even practicing in your own country will prepare
you for first real test.

17. This procedure should make many more women interested in prenatal DNA testing.

18. Prenatal testing is going to put a lot more information about the genetics of a child into the
hands of a lot more parents.

19. As with Croatia the EU has made closer ties with Serbia and Montenegro dependent on its
cooperation with the Hague tribunal.

20. ponovljena

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1. More than 250 000 people have reached Greece clandestinely this year

2. Few want to remain in financially strapped Greece

3. Several groups of immigrant are arriving in Croatia, a new entry point into the eu, after
Hungary closed the border.

4. The police and aid workers for the migrant across the border in Croatia where they are
being registered

5. The police and aid workers waited for the migrants across the border in Croatia where
they....

6. ?

7. ?

8. Russian efforts to stiffen the military backbone of Assad’s government were the best hope
to defeat the Islamic State.

9. It’s obvious that it’s impossible to drive terrorists from this country and from the region as
a whole without the Syrian government and the military playing an active role.

10. We are offering the Syrian government necessary military and technical assistance

11. Mr. Asad was ready for political compromise with the healthy part of the opposition
12. Russian officials have characterised the airlift as a humanitarian aid mission

13. The provision and unloading of the Russian cargo was accompanied by a military guard of
servicemen.

14. Biden named Trump as the purveyor of a “sick message” about immigrants coming to the
US

15. Folks, I’m telling you the American people agree with us.

16. Trump has drawn criticism for his hardline stance on immigration

17. Facebook will be largely abandoned by 2017.

18. We are slowly becoming immune to Facebook’s attractions

19. J. Joplin’s 356C is without question one of the most important Porches of all time

20. Janis Joplin’s family rent the car to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Clevland

III. Questions
1. How long have you been tweeting
WH question

2. She told you all about his illicit affairs?

3. That's what I said, innit?

Tag question

4. She passed away 2 years ago. Passed away?

Echo? Rhetorical?

5. Are you coming or going?

Question of choice?

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1. The chicken crossed the road to get to the other side, but can you?
2. I told you not to do it, didn't I?
Tag question

3. The Universe is an ellipsoid?

4. Was it a regular cold or the flu?

5. What's it gonna be?

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1. How can you be so stupid to say that in front of everybody again?

2. We have a test today?

3. ponovljena

4. Are you ready for a shock

5. Red or blue? Which one should I choose?

IV. Appropriate verb form

1. His mother, as well as his friends KEEP telling him he should leave the girl
2. Neither he nor you ARE at liberty to disclose this information.
3. More than one person HAS told him to let it go.
4. The family HAS given its version of the story.
5. These sort of stories ARE ridiculous.

(ovo je bilo na dva ispita)

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1. Theese kind of buildings never RESIST even the mildest of the earthquakes

2. Two sendwiches IS all I can eat

3. Tomato from Slavonia and Zagorje IS much more tasty than the Dalmatian tomato

4. Neither we nor he IS willing to come along

 5. Many a train HAS passed through here in the past 150 years

V. Theory + examples

1. Coding properties of Subject

2. Rhetorical question

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1. Grammatical concord

2. Interrogative sentences vs. questions

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nije bila teorija već ovo:

Negate the sentences in two ways (making the minimal changes) and explain any differences

1. Once I was invited to his party

2. One of the cats managed to escape
3. Many resorts are teeming with tourists

VI. Rewrite

1. Cheating rarely pays so well as many students think

Rarely does cheating pay as many students think

2. She will not only have to leave her hometown, she will have to leave the country.
Not only she will have to leave her hometown, she will have to leave the country.

3. Paula had no sooner stopped cuddling the baby than it began to cry.
No sooner had Paula stopped cuddling the baby than it began to cry

4. She left him without an explanation not surprisingly.

Not surprisingly, she left him without an explanation

5. They little realized that years later they'd be back together again.
 Little did they realize that years later they'd be back together again

VII. SCOPE OF NEGATION: explain ambiguity… (nije focus of negation)

1. I wasn’t talking to my boss because I followed your advice

2. He wasn’t fidgeting the whole time.