OCG533, Fall 2002
Homework assignment 8, due 27 September
Optimizing verb phrases
From your writing or the literature, find five verb phrases with multiple adverbial postmodifiers and optimize them if necessary, following the style of the examples at the end of the handout “Three principles governing the sequences of adverbial postmodifiers.” For each, briefly explain why it did or didn’t need to be optimized. Be prepared to put one of your examples on the board in class.