English Grammar: a resource Book for Students
Comments Activity C8.1: The vertical lines show the divisions between clause elements. 1. I |’ll see |
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English Grammar- A Resource Book for Students
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Activity C8.1: The vertical lines show the divisions between clause elements. 1. I |’ll see | you | soon. SVOd(A) 2. The girl standing over there | is | my sister. SVCs 3. I | find | it | very amusing. SVOdPo 4. The children | have been swimming. SV 5. The train | arrived | in Guangzhou | at night. SV(A)(A) 6. He | told | her | all his problems. SVOiOd 7. I | bought | the ring | for her. SVOdOp 8. Suddenly, | the room | felt | very cold. (A)SVCs 9. I |’ll put | it | in the cupboard. SVOdA 10. They | made | him | emperor. SVOdPo 11. He | seems | incapable of laughter. SVCs 12. The man in the bank | was arrested. SV 13. Her grandmother | made | her | a cake. SVOiOd 14. Share prices | are falling | to new levels. SV(A) 15. She | depends on | me. SVOp Activity C8.2: The first three are relatively straightforward to analyse: 1. monotransitive verb with a direct object 2. ditransitive verb with indirect and direct objects 3. ditransitive verb with direct and prepositional objects The next three are perhaps unexpected: 4. link verb with subject predicative (a good wife). Here make could be replaced by a link verb such as be. 5. link transitive verb with direct object and object predicative 6. link transitive verb with indirect object and subject predicative Sentences 5 and 6 seem to be identical structurally, but obviously are contradictory in terms of meaning. 5 means she will turn him into a good husband, but in 6 him represents an indirect object while a good wife is a subject predicative; a paraphrase would be She will be a good wife for him. The use of a subject predicative after an object is rare; another example would be She left the room angry (i.e. ‘she’ was ‘angry’), which is not to be confused with She left the room angrily, where angrily is an adverbial. She left him angry could also have the same structure but is more likely to mean that ‘he’ was ‘angry’, i.e. angry is an object predicative. There are other patterns involving make, for instance ‘make someone do something’. Activity C8.3: Monotransitive: 1, 3, 5 (a phrasal verb), 6 (make comments), 8 (make a point), 11 (see extraposition in A11), 14 170 E X P L O R AT I O N Link transitive: 2, 4, 7, 9, 12, 13 Ditransitive phrasalprepositional: 10 Note that in 6 on this briefing belongs with comments as part of the object, as does with anyone in the audience with eye contact in 8. Download 1.74 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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