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INSTITUTO DE FORMACIÓN DOCENTE CONTINUA LENGUAS VIVAS BARILOCHE (A-052) Profesorado de Inglés - Modalidad a distancia DECRIPTIVE GRAMMAR – 2012 Tutor: Cecilia A. Zemborain Unit 2 – The sentence and the clause Assignment – Deadline: 14th September STUDENT’S NAME:Vanesa D’Onofrio Monla Theory 1. Explain the difference between a phrase and a clause. Provide 3 examples of phrases and 3 of clauses (other than the ones that appear in the unit). First, a phrase is a sentence fragment that contains either a verb or a noun, but not both. Second, a clause is a segment fragment that contains both a verb and a noun. A phrase has a head, (noun, adjective, verb, etc).According to the type of phrase (Nominal, verbal, adjectival etc). A clause has a dependent clause that can not stand alone as a sentence and an Independent clause that can stand alone as a sentence. Examples: Phrase: He saw the man NP/DO S Subordinate Clause: He saw the man (that has broken his car in the crowd). S v Clause/ DO Prep. Phrase After a hard work day, I ate a delicious dinner. Dep. Clause When I got home, I ate a delicious dinner. Prep. pharase Alice wrote a letter to her brother. S V OD IO Alice wrote a letter that made his brother cry. S V Clause/DO 2. How can clauses be classified according to verb complementation (ie, number of arguments following the verb) Give an example of each type. (5 types) The number of arguments following a verb are: Intransitive with arguments. The woman cried. Transitive with a direct Object John broke the glass S S Distransitive with both Direct and Indirect Objects V V I gave her a rose S V Copular with a subject complement DO DO OC Mike is a mechanic S Bogus transitive with DO and Object V SC They named Peter secretary S V DO OC 3. What is the difference between embeded and subordinate clauses? Explain and exemplify. Embedded if it is removed, the sentence does not make sense it sounds incomplete. They are required by the predicate introduced by that, if , wheather, for. Typical functions? Subordinate, can be removed, and the sentence still makes sense. Introduced with because, after, since, etc. I know (that) my wife is cheating on me. Embedded I got home after a hard work day. Subordinate Practice 1. Underline the main verb in each sentence. Isolate the dependent clause(s) in each sentence. Classify the dependent clauses providing as many details as you can: Embedded or subordinate? Finite or nonfinite? Function? (S, DO, A, etc) Example: I never thought (that one of my children would be killed)(1) Main verb “thought”. (1) Embedded clause. Finite. Introduced by the complementizer “that”. Function: complement of “thought”. (or: “direct object”). It is an argument of the predicate. It can´t be omitted. a. (Although Jonathan admired his parents’ reasoning), he rejected their ADV S. V DO manners. Dependent clause. Subordinate. Finite. Introd by subordinator “although” . Function? b. (He claimed ) that he would love her even if she eloped with somebody else. S V DO Subordinate. Finite.Do. Introduced by “that” c. (Since leaving home), Harry has phoned her mother just once. ADV V S Subordinate. Non finite Adverbial introduced by since 2. Classify the following clauses into: Transitive, Intransitive, Ditransitive, Copular, or Bogus Ditransitive – Identify Subject, Verb, Direct Object, Indirect Object, Complement, Adverb. a. My mother considers him wise. Bogus Distransitive S V DO C b. She gave the parcel to her teacher. Distransitive S V DO IO c. Caroline bought several books on Grammar to get some further practice. S V DO A Transitive. d. John is a dentist. Copular intransitive S V SC e. The cat suddenly appeared at the window. Copular S Adv V A Vanesa, Please, read my feedback and corrections and make sure they are clear. Beware of language mistakes. If any point requires explanations, please let me know. PASS (just about) Cecilia A. Zemborain