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Complete Exercise 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, p. 24-26.

1. a) Ungrammatical due to prescriptive grammar, or grammatical in colloquial language: whom is required in prescriptive gr.

b) Same as above: than I (prescriptive gr).

c) Syntax (wrong order of words red should immediately precede the noun) or latenratively semantic ('red' is not an object, 'refrigerator' is not a modifier).

d) Syntax (that must not be there.)

e) same as a) (hopefully is considered bad style)

f) same as a) (split infinitives are prescriptively not permitted)

g) syntax (wrong order of words, verbs precede direct objects)

h) (logical) semantics (contradictory; a sister is a sibling)

Be prepared to discuss 2 and 6 in class.

3) The best reason is to have a standard literary language.

4) Each and every rule or rule format would have to be acquired. It would be just a coincidence that languages share some similar properties of syntax.

5) We have to learn some rules of music, for example, but the ability to do scales, thirds, octaves is acquired. This is different from talent. Walking is mostly innate, and variations in walking are acquired, even though parents encourage their kids to walk. Learning requires teaching at some level. Acquired things do not.

7) An anaphor cannot be a subject; an antecedent must precede an anaphor.