Assignment 13B

I. Identify the sentence elements of the superordinate clauses of the following sentences.
E.g. The fishermen / think/ that the company polluted the bay.
S / V / Od
1. No one /can predict/ where the process will end. SVOd
2. The main question raised by such a move /is/ whether a government should be allowed to
control family size. SVCs
3. They /are/ really surprised at the news that they should give the company their unconditional
loyalty. SVCs
4. Those who harm other people physically or mentally/ should be/ in prison. SVA
5. The government /has also faced/ heavy criticism of its methods of trying to enforce the one-
child policy in the past. SVOd
6. Modern societies /are /dependent on each other for their continuing survival. SVCs
7. State promises to provide newer engines, planes, and helicopters /have been fulfilled. SVpass
8.It /might surprise/ you /that chocolate was once highly treasured.
9.The monumental ruins left behind by those past societies hold a fascination for all of us.
10.When we grow up, many of us plan vacations in order to experience them at first hand.
11.Damage caused by a fire is worse than that caused by the flood.
12.Although the direct aims may be financial, creating or hiring a blockbuster has many positive
spin-offs
13. In July 1858, Charles Lyell and J. D Hooker, close friends of Darwin, pressed Darwin to
present his conclusions so that he would not lose priority to an unknown naturalist.
14.State promises to provide newer engines, planes, and helicopters have been fulfilled.
15. The best thing we did was that we hired some really good people to work for us.
16. Many people nurture the belief that environmental standards are declining.
17. The yield of cotton is relatively lower than that of other agricultural crops.
18.Modern societies are dependent on each other for their continuing survival.
19. The homeopath sees the symptoms as signs of the way the body is attempting to help itself.
20. Most historians believe that there are one or two missing factors to open the lock.
21. In many cases, similar difficulties arise when attempts are made to measure domestic
tourism.
22. The thirty-six-storey building in central Tokyo was considered a masterpiece of modern
engineering when it was built in 1968.
23. The disappointing results of many conventional transport projects in Africa made some
experts rethink the strategy.
24. The selected approaches to Makete’s transport problems had had different degrees of
success.
25. This clearly illustrates the need for supplementary measures if one wants to assist the rural
poor.
26. From the non-networker’s point of view, such a development may be intolerable if it is
happening outside their control
27. They sent a sample of the pottery to the laboratory so that a date could be put on it.
II. The following sentence is structurally ambiguous; analyze the two different sentence
structures (SVOCA) to show both possible meanings. (1 mark)
1. Alexa spotted the man with a telescope.
2. Two cars were reported stolen by the policeman.
3. My mother has baked potatoes for dinner.
4. They are cooking apples.
5.They saw the girl who disappeared in the store.
6.He read the book his friend gave him last month.
7.They fed her dog biscuits.
8.I will get her socks.
III. Analyse the following sentences by Descriptive Linguistic (3 marks)

E.g. I’m glad that my mother made me take piano lessons when I was a child.
M 1 : I’m glad
S 1 : that my mother made me take piano lessons: noun clause, complement of “glad”
S.1.1 : when I was a child: adverbial clause, adverbial of time, modifying
‘made’.
1. Although she does not believe we should be seriously concerned, she thinks that in future,
parents and teachers will need to pay more attention to what is happening to boys both at home
and in the classroom.
2. The recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904 for his successful isolation of the element
argon, Lord Rayleigh made key discoveries in the fields of acoustics and optics that are critical
to the theory of wave propagation in fluids and we now know that a number of factors influence
how far sound travels underwater and how long it lasts.
3.The view that spoken language was ultimately a cultural invention like tool-making which then
drove the biological evolution of the brain and vocal apparatus, seems obvious when you think of
the development of different languages.
4. You can look at maps of volcanoes, earthquakes and island chains like the Philippines and
Japan, and you can see the rough outlines of what are called tectonic plates which make up the
earth’s crust and mantle.
5. When we are born, we have a lot of these on the roof of our mouth as well as on our tongue,
but as we get older, we lose taste buds, which is why older people find it harder to taste things.
6.Questions like this illustrate why those famous collapses of past civilisations have taken on
more meaning than just that of a romantic mystery, but perhaps there are some practical lessons
that we could learn from all those past collapses.
7.It has been observed that most children with noise-induced hearing threshold shifts have only
limited hearing damage and that continued exposure to excessive noise can lead to difficulties
with high-frequency sound discrimination but as soon as the exposure is stopped, the hearing
loss stops.
8. The cost of food has now reached a point where a growing number of people believe that it is
far too high, and that bringing it down will be one of the great challenges of the 21th century.
IV. Combine the sets of simple sentences into one complex/compound complex sentence
1.
Plato told the story of Atlantis around 360 BC. The founders of Atlantis were half god and half
human. Their home was made up of concentric islands separated by wide moats and linked by a
canal.
2.
The English language includes many roots from Latin and Greek. Learning the code for spelling
and pronouncing words can be challenging. Many people realize this. They are learning English
as a foreign language.
V. Construct the sentences as guided (2 marks)
E.g. [Noun clause] means he knew nothing about the task.
What he did means he knew nothing about the task.
1. [Noun clause] hasn’t been announced yet.
2. [Preparatory S] is a big question [noun clause].
3. Her parents [adjective clause] were disappointed [adverbial clause].
4. She refused to work for that company [adverbial clause].

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I. Identify the sentence elements of the superordinate clauses of the following sentences.

2. Two cars were reported stolen by the policeman.

3. My mother has baked potatoes for dinner.

4. They are cooking apples.

5.They saw the girl who disappeared in the store.

7.They fed her dog biscuits.

8.I will get her socks.

III. Analyse the following sentences by Descriptive Linguistic (3 marks)

2. [Preparatory S] is a big question [noun clause].

3. Her parents [adjective clause] were disappointed [adverbial clause].

4. She refused to work for that company [adverbial clause].

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