322 Syntax

Exercise 3

Complete the following. Each numbered section works on a particular topic:

1. The following are head and complement. Draw a tree structure for each phrase in the X⁰ notation:

a. eat cherries

b. on bread

c. glass of milk

d. fond of coffee

3. Continue—use NP :

glasses of milk

boxes of pencils

five bottles of beer.

4. Continue—use NP triangle (short hand) for the NPs here:

place the book on the desk

set the cups on those two counters.

5. Continue; modifiers are introduced:

orange shirt

dirty old mop

tired students

ten exhausted instructers

6. Continue—use NP (short hand) for the NPs):

slowly drink two large glasses of warm milk

walk rapidly right up to the blackboard