Home Asignment

Mirela Stanica 03.10.2010

Group:B

Home assignment 1



Exercise 1

Sentence: He found hissecretary a reliable person.

a) type of sentence: simple

b) type of clause: main

c) clausal pattern: SPOC

d) phrases he = NPfound= VP

his secretary = NP

a reliable typist= NP



e) Function within phrases:

He= head in NP

Found= head in VP

His=determiner in NP

Secretary= head in NP

A= central determiner in NP

Reliable= premodifier in NP

Typist= head in NP



f) Form class of words

He= personal pronoun

Found= lexicalverb

His= possessive determiner

Secretary= common noun

A= indefinite article

Reliable= adjectiv

Typist= common noun



Exercise 2 S –simpleC-main



S P dO oC

NP VPNP NP



Head head determiner head central premodifier headdeterminer



personal lexical verb adjectivecommon indefinite adjective common
pronoun possessive noun articlenoun




He found his secretary a reliable typist



Exercise 3

1. NP: a brand-new book on linguistics...