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Simple SentencePRACTICE CLASS #9 (#10)

2012-05-22/23

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CONCORD

CONCORD

Concord is AGREEMENT between two sentence elements with respect to certain grammatical features. Officially: CONCORD (sometimes termed AGREEMENT) is the relationship between TWO GRAMMATICAL UNITS such that one of them DISPLAYS A PARTICULAR FEATURE (e.g. plurality) that ACCORDS WITH A DISPLAYED (or semantically implicit) FEATURE in the other unit.

There are several types of concord.

exercise 8 (a-e)

exercise 8 (f-k)

exercise 8 (l-p)

BASIC INFORMATION

NEGATION

GENERAL TYPES OF NEGATION

• CLAUSE NEGATION – the whole clause is syntactically treated as negative:– She’s not an attractive woman in any respect(, is she?)

• LOCAL NEGATION – one constituent (but not necessarily a clause element) is negated:– She’s a not unattractive woman in some ways. (NOT: in any respect)

• PREDICATION NEGATION – very rare, applies only after certain auxiliaries (often depends on pronunciation):– They may not go swimming. [=They are allowed not to go swimming]

NEGATION IS REALIZED THROUGH USE OF NEGATIVE ITEMS.

NEGATION via NEGATIVE ITEMS• The clause can be negated:– EITHER BY NEGATING THE VERB, – OR BY NEGATING OTHER SENTENCE ELEMENTS.

• Depending on what sentence element is being negated, it is necessary to use different negative items:– VERB NEGATION: the negative particle NOT is always used: He does

not dring. She is not a model wife.– NEGATION OF OTHER SENTENCE ELEMENTS can be achieved using

DIFFERENT NEGATIVE ITEMS:• Words negative in form and meaning: no, none, never, not• Word negative in meaning only (not negative in form): rarely, seldom,

scarcely, barely, little, few• VERBS, ADJECTIVE, PREPOSTIONS with IMPLIED NEGATIVE MEANING:

refuse, deny, fail; reluctant, unaware; without, against; unless

NEGATION: SCOPE OF NEGATION• The SCOPE OF NEGATION is the stretch of language

OVER WHICH THE NEGATIVE MEANING OPERATES AND WHERE NON-ASSERTIVE ITEMS MUST BE USED.

• The SCOPE OF NEGATION EXTENDS FROM THE NEGATIVE ITEM TO:– THE END OF THE CLAUSE (NOT NECESSARILY THE END OF

THE SENTENCE),– THE END OF THE NEGATED PHRASE (IF ONLY A SINGLE

PHRASE IS NEGATED), OR– THE BEGINNING OF THE FINAL ADJUNCT.

• WHY IS THIS SUCH A BIG DEAL?

The POSITION OF THE NEGATIVE ITEM may drastically INFLUENCE THE MEANING OF THE WHOLE

SENTENCE:

SCOPE OF NEGATION

• She definitely didn’t speak to him.= It is definite that she didn’t speak to him.

• She didn’t definitely speak to him.= It is not definite that she spoke to him.

exercise 9 (a-d)

THERE AREN’T ANY STUDENTS IN THE CLASSROOM YET.

I WOULDN’T LIKE TO GO ANYWHERE FAR AWAY.

WE CANNOT BE FRIENDS ANY MORE/ANY LONGER.

HE HAS NEVER/RARELY GIVEN ME ANY USEFUL ADVICE.

exercise 9 (e-h)

YOU CAN’T PARK EITHER ON THE LEFT OF RIGHT HERE.

THE WEATHER DOESN’T SEEM ANY BETTER.

SUSAN WILL NEVER MANAGE TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL.

THERE WAS NO CHANCE ANYBODY WOULD COME.

exercise 9 (i-l)

BILL WAS UNENTHUSIASTIC TO READ ANY OF THE BOOKS.

NO PROBLEM CAN BE SOLVED LIKE THAT.

LITTLE OF THE FOOD WAS BAD.

THEY WON’T GO SHOPPING.

exercise 10

I (REALLY) DON’T (REALLY) UNDERSTAND.

THAT (SIMPLY) IS (SIMPLY) NOT ACCEPTABLE.

I (DEFINITELY) DON’T (DEFINITELY) KNOW (DEFINITELY) WHAT ….

(EVEN) HE (EVEN) DOESN’T (EVEN) TRY (EVEN).

BASIC INFORMATION

SENTENCE TYPES AND DISCOURSE FUNCTION

Sentence types and discourse functions

exercise 11 (a-d)

WHAT IS HER NAME?

WHERE DOES SHE COME FROM?

DID SOMEONE CALL HER LAST NIGHT?

CAN’T YOU GIVE US ANY HELP?

exercise 11 (e-h)

YOU’VE GOT YOUR CAMERA WITH YOU?

SHALL WE TRAVEL BY BUS OR TRAIN?

HASN’T SHE GROWN!

IS THAT A REASON FOR DESPAIR?

SEMANTIC ROLES

SUBJECT – semantically defined

DIRECT OBJECT – semantically defined

INDIRECT OBJECT – semantically defined

COMPLEMENTS – semantically defined

exercise 7 (a-e)

S: AGENT O: THEME

S: POSSESOR

S: INSTRUMENT O: THEME

S: THEME

O: LOCATIVE

exercise 7 (f-j)

Oi: THEME (or RECIPIENT?) Od: RESULT/EFFECTED (eventive)

Co: current attribute of the object

Co: resulting attribute of the object

Cs: resulting attribute of the subject

S: INSTRUMENT O: THEME

exercise 7 (k-o)S: IDENTIFIED Cs: current attribute

of the subjectS1: AGENT Oi1: RECIPIENT Od1: THEME

S2: RECIPIENTOd2: THEME

S: THEME

A: RECIPIENT

Oi: THEMEOd: RESULT/EFFECTED (eventive)

S: AGENT O: THEMECo: current attribute of the object

exercise 7 (p-t)

S: EXPERIENCER

S: AGENT O: LOCATIVE

S: AGENT O: RESULT/EFFECTED (cognate)

S: EXPERIENCER O: INSTRUMENT

S: AGENT O: RESULT/EFFECTED

exercise 7 (u-z)

S: CAUSE O: THEME

S: AGENT O: THEME

S: AGENT O: RESULT/EFFECTED

O: INSTRUMENT

S1: AGENT Oi1: RECIPIENTOd1: RESULT/EFFECTED

S2: AGENTS: EXPERIENCER

COMPLEX SENTENCE

CLASS #1 – 2012-05-22

exercise 1

FIRST, AN EXCERSISES TO PRACTICE TYPES OF SENTENCES!

exercise 1 (a-c)

COMPOUND SENTENCE

COMPLEX SENTENCE

SIMPLE SENTENCE“who was buying a paper” is a postmodification of the noun “man”, so the SUBJECT is realized as a NOUN PHRASE

exercise 1 (d-f)

COMPLEX SENTENCE

COMPLEX SENTENCE

COMPLEX SENTENCE

exercise 1 (g-i)

COMPOUND SENTENCE

COMPLEX SENTENCE

SIMPLE SENTENCE“when he will come” is a postmodification of the ADJ “sure”, so the sentence is simple: S (NP) V (VP) Cs (AP)

exercise 1 (j-l)

COMPLEX SENTENCE

SIMPLE SENTENCE“of working so hard” is a postmodification of the ADJ “tired”, so the sentence is simple: S (NP) V (VP) Cs (AP)

COMPLEX SENTENCE

exercise 1 (m-n)

COMPLEX SENTENCE

COMPOUND SENTENCE

NOW, AN EXERCISE TO TEST YOUR GENERAL KNOWLEDGE ON COMPLEX SENTENCES

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exercise 2 (a-c)

OBJECT

OBJECT

(ADVERBIAL)

exercise 2 (d-f)

DIRECT OBJECT

SUBJECT

(ADVERBIAL)

exercise 2 (g-i)

SUBJECT

OBJECT

(ADVERBIAL)

exercise 2 (j-k)

(ADVERBIAL)

(ADVERBIAL)

exercise 2 (l-o)

l) Home is where the heart is.

m) Jill hurt her arm playing tennis.

n) The chairman of the committee turned traitor, which was unexpected.

o) To cut a long story short, they eventually broke up.

ADVERBIAL

(ADVERBIAL)

(ADVERBIAL)

(ADVERBIAL)

THE ENDThank you for your time!

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