Education and Social Relationships
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Our family are very content that the girl that she spends her time with is well educated.

  • grammatically and semantically correct (correct)
  • grammatically incorrect
  • an inverted statement
  • simple (correct)

Our family are very content that the girl that she spends her time with is well educated.

  • sentence comtains a complement clause (correct)
  • contains a restrictive clause (correct)
  • contains an extraposed that clause
  • contains a stranded preposition (correct)

Our family are very content that the girl that she spends her time with is well educated.

  • the sentence above contains a complement clause (correct)
  • contains a restrictive relative clause (correct)
  • contains an extraposed that-clause
  • contains a possessive modifier

Our family are very content that the girl that she spends her time with is well educated.

<p>contains only clause elements realised by phrases (D), the sentence above coorespond to the syntactic pattern S-V-SC (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Her parents are very happy, that the man, that J. spends her evening with is a priest.

<p>grammatically incorrect (B), simple (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Her parents are very happy, that the man, that J. spends her evening with is a priest.

<p>stranded preposition (A), complement clause (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Her parents are very happy, that the man, that J. spends her evening with is a priest.

<p>contains only clause elements realised by phrases (C), corresponds to S-V-SC (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Amazingly, neither of the two girls was afraid in the dark.

<p>'neither' is head of S-NP (C), all phrases are realised by phrases (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

A surprisingly high number of Australians have applied for the job.

<p>grammatically correct (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

I heard that a small number of applicants has complained with the exchange office.

<p>is syntactically correct (B), V in the complement clause has to be plural (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

We know that an insignificant number of apprentices has complained with their employers.

<p>is grammatically incorrect (B), V in the complement clause has to be in plural (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Surprisingly, none of the Members of Parliament supporting the treaty were liberals/Europeans.

<p>'none' is head of S-NP (A), all clause elements are realised by phrases (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Rarely does the clergy (gentry/police/vermin/poultry) attend the meeting of the city council.

<p>contains a concord error (B), operator has to be in plural (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

As soon as the police was called, they refrained from smoking.

<p>V in the adverbial has to be in the plural (A), the matrix clause is grammatically correct (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

I wish they pass on the minutes of their meeting to us.

<p>V in that case has to be in modal past (B), the mood of the main verb is correct (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Don’t let’s wish she tells us what her plans are!

<p>the mood of the V in the that-clause is wrong (B), 'tells' has to be replaced with 'told' (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

The government is unlikely to meet the full cost.

<p>the non-finite clause is post-predicative (A), the non-finite clause is an adjectival complement (B), S to S raising was practiced (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

The government is unlikely to meet the full cost.

<p>non-finite clause is an adjectival complement (B), without raising applied, sentence would read: 'it is unlikely that the government will meet the full cost' (C), S to S raising was practiced (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Without those powers, computer hacking would be almost impossible to prove.

<p>O to S raising was practiced (B), the SP is realised by an adjective phrase (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Correct answers will be rather problematic to prove here.

<p>O to S raising has been practiced (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

I finally saw a tall forester, using a pair of binoculars.

<p>there are two adverbials (A), the non-finite clause modifies the subject (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

They took pictures of a watchman, not showing any official interest.

<p>a circumstance adverbial is contained (C), a subject-related present participle clause is contained (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

They took pictures of the beach girls, not showing any official interest.

<p>a circumstance adverbial is contained (C), a subject-related present participle is contained (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

I never found any mushrooms, running the forest.

<p>the non-finite clause modifies S (B), there are two adverbials (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

To run into her is difficult.

<p>S is realised by a non-finite idiomatic clause (B), 'into' is not an adverb participle (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Do you really think there is any danger of running into them in a place so far away?

<p>doesn't contain an adverb participle (C), is a prepositional one (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Please hang on a second.

<p>V is an intransitive prepositional one (B), the adverbial is realised by NP (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Dave ran up the street to inform Jane of what he had heard in the shop.

<p>there is a prepositonal object (C), there is no restrictive relative clause (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Dave ran up the street to inform Jane of what he had heard in the shop.

<p>verb in the sentence is not a phrasal one (A), is a prepositional one (B), is not an idiom (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

She ran across the street to her friend.

<p>monotransitive (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

She ran across the street to her friend.

<p>a prepositional verb (B), not an idiom (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Dr. Millers/M’s is a house where problems never remain unsolved.

<p>relativiser is in an adverbial gap position (C), subject phrase is realised by postmodified NP (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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