Tasks based on Chapter 10 Simple sentence

Read Chapter 10 from A Student’s Grammar of the English Language by Greenbaum and Quirk and answer
the following questions.

1. Illustrate the difference between the simple and complex sentence:





2. Put down one example of a simple sentence (type SVOO) and analyse it into sentence elements and
their corresponding phrases:




3. What is the difference between the direct and indirect object?




4. Write two simple sentences each containing a complement, each expressed by a different kind of
phrase. Indicate their clause type.

a/



b/


5. What is the multiple class membership of verbs? Invent your own examples showing the same verb
in two different clause types:




6. What is the difference between a complement and complementation? Which is a broader notion?





7. What is the difference between grammatical and notional concord? Illustrate it.





8. Put down at least five expressions that are negative in meaning but not in form.

Use one of them in your own example.




9. What is the scope of negation?




10. What are obligatory adverbials? In which clause patterns can they occur?