SEMINAR WORKSHEET for Lecture 6

- COORDINATION -

I. Bracket out the linkers and specify the type of coordination (with respect to #1 the linkers and #2 the conjoins), then draw the tree, as in the models. Mark ellipsis by
∆ where necessary.

[ENDORSER Both] John [CONJUNCTION and] Mary have won a prize. Results show that identical twins, [COMPLEX PREPOSITION in addition to] looking alike, have very
similar intelligence.
#1 syndetic coordination
#2 simple coordination
#1 asyndetic coordination
#2 quasi-coordination
1. The weather will be cold and cloudy.

2. The warm but windy weather will continue for several more depressing, long days.

3. He admitted his mistake and apologized, but nobody believed him.

4. Either the room is too small or the piano is too large.

5. I’ll try and come tomorrow.

6. Both Mary and Peter washed the dishes.

7. We did the dishes, the laundry, then we put the pie in the oven for dad.

8. I knew who she was and what she wanted.

9. She talked and talked and talked.

10. On this farm they keep cows, sheep, pigs, and a few chickens.

11. I’ve read your ambitious and rather expensive proposal.

12. These and these and these chairs go to the other dining-room.

13. The country can and must recover from its present crisis.

14. He spoke for the first motion but against the second motion.

15. We gave William a book on stamps and Mary a book on painting.

16. One girl has written a poem, and the other a short story.

17. Jane has looked healthier, and Maurice more relaxed, since their vacation.

18. He got a bike for his birthday, and a book, and a pen.

19. She put the milk in a mug and three cookies on a plate.

20. Lilly became a journalist and Susan a teacher.

II. Reconstruct the following sentences:

1) NP [Art + N + PP] … told me the truth.

A girl from my seminar group told me the truth.

2) –ing-Cl [NP + VP [V + NP]] … is just intolerable.

My friend being a dealer is just intolerable.

3) Wh-Cl [NP + VP [V+wh-Cl]] … goes with the first group of surveyors.

Who knows where are the children goes with the first group of surveyors.

4) NP [Pron + wh-Cl] … must have seen those files.

He and who wrote this books must have seen those files.

5) That-Cl [NP + VP [V + NP]] … is the best news.

That you won the prize is the least news.

III and IV. From Sylvia Chalker’s book, exercises 127 (Complex coordination) and 128 (Quasi-coordination), p. 97 – 98.