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TRIAL TEST(2) – ADVANCED GRAMMAR – 2020

I. Identify the sentence patterns of the superordinate clauses of the following sentences and
state the name and function of each finite subordinating clause.
E.g. The fishermen / think/ that the company polluted the bay.
S V O (noun clause – object of “think”)
1. Although French, German, America and British pioneers have all been credited with the
invention of cinema, the British and the Germans played a small role in its world-wide
exploitation.
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2. The rest of the world survived partly because audiences continued to exist for a product which
corresponded to needs which Hollywood could not supply
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3. Another hypothesis suggests that decreased processing of glucose could indicate to cells that
food is scarce and induce them to shift into an anti-aging mode.
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4. There is scientific evidence that eating fewer calories may extend human life.
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5. In experiments, rats who ate what they wanted led shorter lives than rats on a low-calorie diet.
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6. However difficult you find it to arrange your time, it will pay off in the long run if you set aside
a certain part of the day for studying and stick to it
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7. If you always study in the same place, preferably a room of your own, you will find it easier to
adjust mentally to the activity when you enter that area.
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8. It may help to discuss a topic with other people, especially if you feel that you have insufficient
ideas or too many disorganized ideas.
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II. Analyse the following sentences by Descriptive Linguistic

E.g. I’m glad that my mother made me take piano lessons when I was a child.
M 1 : I’m glad
S 1 : that my mother made me take piano lessons: noun clause, complement of “glad”
S.1.1 : when I was a child: adverbial clause, Adjunct.
1. Don’t hesitate to bring your topic up in a conversation with other students and see what they
say, though you don’t want to copy their ideas, listening to what they think may well help you
develop or refine your own thoughts.
2. Von Frisch knew from experiments by an early researcher that if he put out a bowl of sweet
sugar syrup, bees might at first take some time to find it but, once they had done so, within the
hour, hundreds of other bees would be eagerly taking the syrup.
III. Combine the set of simple sentences into complex/compound complex sentence
You are doing a long essay or research paper. It involves the use of library books or other
articles. Keeping details of the tittles and authors on small cards in a card box may help.
IV. Draw a tree diagram for the following sentence
You can mark the article by making any comments that you have in the margin.
V. The following sentence is structurally ambiguous; analyze the two different sentence
structures (SVOCA) to show both possible meanings.
John saw the man on the mountain with a telescope.

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TRIAL TEST(2) – ADVANCED GRAMMAR – 2020

II. Analyse the following sentences by Descriptive Linguistic

IV. Draw a tree diagram for the following sentence

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