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Analyse the underlined grammatical phenomena in the following sentences.

Morphology
1. "I hope I see you, fine folk, again real soon," Robinson said. 2. The car was
running good. 3. And then we see them loud and clear and what they are up to,
which we wouldn't have done, if they'd sat tight. 4. Violet breathed loud and hard
once and with an effort brought another expression into her face. 5. And goodness
knows what I was promising at the end. 6. They heard the young Russian giving
orders to the driver, then they were all seated in the dark crowded close together. 7.
"Christ!" Oakland Tribune protested. "Us real reporters will settle for once
around."8. "I'm not being seen with you in Newmarket," she cried. 9. Occasional
new arrivals were still tricking in - from late planes and trains and several were
being roomed now by Chandler's platoon of bellboys. 10. He poured scorn on the
report in the Tory "Sunday Telegraph" that General Bernard Rogers was advising a
US pull-out. For the US to pull out of Britain because of Labour's non-nuclear
policy would be "cutting off their nose to spite their face". 11. The headlines had
gone blacker: "Full ahead for war" or "Haul down this flag" or "It's them or us?"
Syntax and morphology

1. Britain must pull out of the Star Wars programme.


2. Labour economic spokesman Peter Shore told the Tories that they "had reached
a new low" and warned that the proposal exacerbate social tension. (the change of
word order)
3. Aboureak, Byrd and Mayrihen are keeping their own council but will probably
come through in support of the administration position.
4. Labour youth spokesman Barry Spearman said that the Youth Training scheme
was "a residual low-cost training for hundreds of thousands" of young people. (the
change of word order)
5. "Give me the National Computer Information Centre. Polly." He was put
through.
6. His primary responsibility was to head the Bureau's think tank of six lesser but
still impressive brains.
7. "The Thatcher generation is crying out for change," he said.
8. Student Exchange Organization, such as AFS, have a clear role in raising the
levels of international awareness, both in schools and individuals, participating in
the experience abroad.
9. I told him to talk to folks simple like the fireside chats. (Attribute chain in
preposition oust attributive clauses существ + существ))
10. My slide show for each class was followed by a questions and answers session.
11. Yet, messing with odometers nowadays was becoming tricky because of state
laws, also those in this year's models were the tamperproof kind.
12. The BBC will transit two Direct Broadcasting Satellite TV services bearing
scrambled signals to special 90-cm domestic dish aerials. (Attribute chain in
preposition oust attributive clauses существ + существ))
13. "One way is to start shouting the truth - the way things are not holding back -
and to go on shouting loud and clear and often."
24. National policy is now preventing the universities from developing as they
might and should.
14. A student presence in the league should reflect representation of political
trends in the student movement.
15. They might laugh at her, she might, probably would come back worn out. 16.
As responsible bodies they receive grants direct from the Department of Education
and Science.

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