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Activity C5.1: One meaning is that it is dangerous to fly planes (verb), the other
that planes which are flying – but not those on the ground – are dangerous
(adjective).
Possible paraphrases would be Flying planes is dangerous and
Flying planes
are dangerous.
Activity C5.2:
A
Verb (
-ing participle): 1, 2, 5, 8
Adjective: 3, 4, 6, 7,
B
Adjective: 1, 3, 8 (a minor sentence; see A9), 10, 11 (a case of extraposition;
see A11)
Noun: 4, 6, 9 (a premodifier; see A3)
Verb: 5, 7, 12 (intransitive; see C6)
Line 2 could be interpreted as a noun or a verb.
Activity C5.3:
Adjective: 1, 2, 4, 6, 8
-ed participle: 3, 5 (a passive), 7 (a passive, = ‘drill a hole’)
Activity C5.4:
a) the present tense: 6
b) the infinitive: 3, 9
c) the past tense: 1, 7
d) the
-ed participle: 2, 4, 5, 8, 10. Lines 2, 8 and 10 contain ‘reduced passives’
(see A6) which can be expanded:
. . . rooms which were . . . ; . . .
if it is/was . . . ;
. . .
record which was . . .
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