TAKE HOME ASSIGNMENT

WEEK 2 : The Hierarchy of Grammatical Units

Name :
Rombel :

Question:
1. Devine the following terms:
a. sentence
b. clause
c. phrase
d. word

2. Read carefully of the following paragraph. Analyze them into its speech parts: noun, verb,
adjective, adverb.
The last word ended in a long bleat, so like a sheep that Alice quite started. She looked at
the queen, who seemed to have suddenly wrapped herself up in wool.
Alice rubbed her eyes, and looked again. She couldn’t make out what had happened at all.
Was she in a shop? And was that really – was it really a sheep that was sitting on the
other side of the counter. Rub as she would, she could make nothing more of it
(Halliday & Hasan, 1976: 330-340)
Nouns Verbs Adjectives Adverbs

3. Read carefully of the following paragraph. Analyze them into its: sentence, clause,
phrase and word.
Example:
I went over to my friend’s house and said ‘We’ll go for a walk’.
Se : 1
Cl : 2
Ph : 7
Wo : 15

I went over to my friend’s house and I said ‘We’ll go for a walk’. And we went far
away and I said ‘I don’t know our way home. And then we kept on walking and we
were very hungry. After that we saw a village and we went to talk to them and we
said ‘We’re hungry’. Then, they gave us some food and we thanked them and we
went walking off. And then we stopped and sat down. And then we saw a giant and
I sreamed ‘Cooee’.
(source Butt et al. 1994: 94)

Source:
Butt. et al. 1995. Using Functional Grammar: An Explorer’s Guide. Sydney: National Centre
for English Language and Research Macquaire University
Halliday, M.A.K. & Hasan, Ruqaiya. 1976. Cohesion in English. New York: Longman