ENGLISH DESCRIPTIVE LINGUISTICS I – CHAPTERS 6 & 7 ASSIGNMENT – DUE MAY 21st, 2020

Read and try to understand the contents of Chapters 6 and 7, as outlined below.

Chapter 6 deals with the Verb Phrase (VP). Study the definitions and examples of the following:

 Notion of VP
 Six forms of the verb
 Tensed and non-tensed verb forms
 Notion of agreement
 ING form as:
- Gerund
- Modifier
- Progressive
 Tense and aspect and their combinations
- Tense: present and past
- Aspect: progressive, perfect, simple, generic/habitual
 Modality
- Modal auxiliaries
- Epistemic vs. deontic use and interpretation
- subjunctive
 Operator
- Auxiliaries
- Auxiliary “do”
- Verb-auxiliary homophony
- Other problematic verb forms

Diagrams of the VP

Chapter 7 deals with Prepositional Phrases (PrepPhr) and Adverbials. Study the definitions and examples of the following:

 Prepositions vs. adverbs

 Prepositional phrases
 Forms and functions of PrepPhrs:
- PrepPhr as modifier of NP
- PrepPhr as precore phrase
- PrepPhr as AdvComp
 Phrasal verbs and their meaning
- Transitive and intransitive phrasal verbs
 Prepositional verbs and their characteristics
- Transitive prepositional verbs
- Phrasal-prepositional verbs
 Adverbials
- Adverbials in core sentences
- Adverbials in VP
 basic sentence patterns

Diagrams with prepositional verbs and adverbials

Exercises
SET A: 6.1 and 6.2, : 6.3 and 6.4 (Chapter 6 – pages 110 - 111)

SET B: Do exercises 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4 (Chapter 7 - pages 131-133)

SET C: Do exercises 7.5, 7.6, 7.7 and 7.8 (Chapter 7 - pages 133-134)

SET D: Diagram the following sentences:

- last Sunday, Sebastian may have been playing the tuba

- explosions have been rocking the town since early morning
- the troopers would be escorting the joyful parade
- you were supposed to have gone
- the books in the bookstore will be wet
- the family with three kids with a red car in Julius Nyerere Avenue travelled
- Paul has taken over new responsibilities
- Peter took his anger out on the employees
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