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Function: SUBJECT
Forms:
NP: The flood destroyed their new condo.
PrepP: Under the stairs was a safe area to be during the war.
Forms:
NP: It would be great fun.
AdjP: She became irate.
PrepP: The book is in two parts.
Adv P: He is very well.
Vinf P: The best thing is to leave your family at home.
Gerund phrase: Her latest craze is dancing.
Participle phrases: This is more appealing.
He is shocked.
Forms:
NP: She told her brother a lie.
PrepP: I loaned a book to John.
Form:
NP: Ralf enjoys her company.
PrepP: Are you going on holiday before the Easter? I prefer before the Easter.
Vinf P: Lee remembered to shave.
Gerund phrase: I like shopping.
Forms:
NP: The citizens proclaimed him king.
AdjP: She found the concert tedious.
Prep P: His threats filled her with terror.
Vinf P: Thomas Jefferson considered the Missouri Compromise to be the death of the nation.
Forms:
AdvP: He urgently needed to see the doctor.
PrepP: We met outside Paris.
NP: He resigned last year.
Vinf phrase: I went there to see him.
Ving P: She came in singing.
Premodifiers
Forms:
NP: city life
Adj P: dark eyes
Postmodifiers/ Qualifiers
Forms:
Prep P: the teeth of an animal
Participle phrases:
boring books discussed in class
the shin tightly covered with smooth shiny skin
The circus was all one family performing in the open air.
Vinf P: the power to resist
I Identify the type of the following phrases:
glad to get rid of it
one’s mind
throughout the rest of list
scarcely odd
neither of us
capable of original thought
the books one reads in childhood
fisherman’s life
cotton cultivation in the British Empire
II Indicate the type and structure of the underlined phrases:
IV Name the function of the sentence constituents, which have been separated with slashes. The
first one has been done for you.
A S P IO DO
2 He/ told / us/ to buy over ripe and bruised fruit on sale.
8 He/heated/the mixture.
9 He/stirred/it/until it boiled.
13 After stretching the plastic around the plate, /we/ taped/ it/ to the back.
16 We/ placed/ the plates, covered with cheesecloth, / in a shadow box/ to dry in the sun.
19 After three days, /he/ brought/ us/ the dried fruit leather.