OCG533, Fall 2001
Homework assignment 8, due 26 September 2001
Large-scale structure of sentences

Exercise 18-1: Large-scale structure of sentences
      Using the procedure described in this chapter, express the structure of each of the ten sentences below in terms of the large-scale functional units subject (S), verb (V), object (OD or OI), complement (CS or CO), adverb (A), and adjective (AJ). You may also need to use a conjunction (C or Csub) on occasion. Feel free to further analyze any of the above units that themselves contain functional units. Then summarize the abbreviated structure of each sentence (e.g., SVOA). Feel free to rewrite any of the sentences to make them clearer.

      1. The beautiful girl from high society learned to dance at the age of three.

      2. Sentences in English are constructed around five basic patterns.

      3. Students can also receive tickets if they do not have a fraternity/sorority parking sticker.

      4. Previous studies focusing on the spectral composition of incident solar radiation have shown that biological processes and chemical reactions are strongly wavelength de­pendent.

      5. Glaciers and ice sheets are controlled by the climate and must change if the conditions that led to their current configurations are changing.

      6. Although Connery acknowledges that things usually are tougher on the road, he did not expect what his team was treated to Saturday.

      7. Although conventional wisdom invokes a light limitation mechanism driven by the stimulated growth of other primary producers, our results showed that elevated nitrate concentrations directly affect the plants by reducing leaf tensile strength.

      8. Well defined linear trends on SiO2 variation diagrams have been successfully modeled by fractional crystallization of a mineral assemblage containing plagioclase, orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene, titanomagnetite, and ilmenite.

      9. Accounting for an estimated million deaths worldwide annually, hepatitis B virus is one of the most important carcinogens, second only to tobacco.

      10. We were interested in whether the anatomical constraints are sufficient to specify one ordering of the hierarchy out of the large number of possible orderings.

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