Pre-Test

Evaluación sumativa 2

Gramática Inglesa II
I. Answer the following questions thoroughly.

1. What is a Noun Phrase (NP)? Provide 2 Examples of complex NPs.

2. What is a “reduced” Adjective Clause? Provide 1 example.

3. Explain the subclases of Numerals (Num). Provide 2 examples of each

subcategory.
II. Read the following sentences and analyse the structure of the underlined
NPs by breaking them into their components

❏ The pirates found both of their hidden treasures that were buried in the island.

❏ His cousin brought him two new glasses of sparkling water.

❏ She was a very smart and talented woman who played the harp.
III. Read the following text and identify the NPs that conform to the structures below.
The recognition that feelings of happiness and unhappiness can coexist much like love and hate in a close relationship may help people
to lead a happier life. It suggests, for example, that changing or avoiding things that make you miserable may well make you less
miserable but probably won’t make you any happier. That advice is backed up by a few extraordinary studies which indicate that a
genetic predisposition for unhappiness may run in certain families. On the other hand, researchers have found that happiness doesn’t
appear to be anyone’s heritage. The capacity for joy is a talent you develop largely for yourself.
Psychologists have settled on a working definition of the feeling –happiness is a sense of subjective well-being. They are also attempting
to find out who’s happy, who isn’t and why. To date, the research hasn’t found a simple recipe for a happy life, but it has discovered
some actions and attitudes that seem to bring people closer to that happy feeling.
In some studies of identical and fraternal twins, researchers have examined the role genetics plays in happiness and unhappiness. The
work suggests that, although no one is really born to be happy, sadness may run in families.

1. Det (art) + Aj + H ............................................................................................................

2. Det (art) + Aj + H + PP .................................................................................................
3. Det (art) + H + AjCl .........................................................................................................
4. Quant + H + PP .......................................................................................................................
5. Det (art) + Quant + Aj + H + AjCl ..................................................................................
IV. Provide suitable filler las for the slots in the NP structures below, with one of the nouns
given (singular or plural) as heads of your NPs. Use your phrases in suitable sentences of
your own.

1) Head: BEAR / ZEBRA

GP Aj Noun H
Se:
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………
2) Head: CLOCK /
PRINTER
Quant AjP H AjCl
Se:
………………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………..
3) Head: RAIN / SUN

Det: dem Aj H PP

Se:
……………………………………………………………………………………………………
……………………………………..