English Grammar: a resource Book for Students
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English Grammar- A Resource Book for Students
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In this exploration section we will analyse complex sentences, involving several subordinate clauses. You will need to identify both clause elements and different types of phrase, e.g. a noun phrase acting as a subject, or a prepositional phrase acting as an adverbial. The text below is part of a description of British cultural peculiarities. It is quite dense in terms of information and the clause structure of the sentences is quite complicated. There are two sentences and both are multiple and complex. Read the text and then answer the questions below. No other nation can produce a book collector on quite the heroic scale of Sir Thomas Philips (1792–1872), who in 50 years amassed the greatest private library the world has ever seen, spending on it some £250,000 (add two noughts for inflation). Few other nations can produce such dedicated book loonies as Bernard Levin, who has been advised that should he ever be rash enough to display on shelves the tons of books he has amassed so far, he would assuredly bring the walls of his London apartment crashing about his ears. Identify all the finite and nonfinite verb forms. (Remember modals and imperatives count as finite.) How many clauses are there? Some small points. 1. Find two contact relative clauses (i.e. where there is no relative pronoun). 2. The object of produce in the second sentence begins such . . . Where does it end? 3. What clause type is add two noughts for inflation? Analyse the structure of the second sentence according to its finite clauses; name each type of subordinate clause and show how they relate to each other. Explain the role of his ears in the second sentence. Each time it becomes part of a larger unit, explain that unit’s role, and so on till you reach the sentence level. Ignore the text from . . . should he . . . to . . . so far . . . C10 ✪ Download 1.74 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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