Examples Flashcards

1
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Yesterday I met a girl [From Italy]

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Adjunct or modifier

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2
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Yesterday I met a student [Of physics]

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Complement

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3
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John suggested [that we should work on Sundays]

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Complement Clause

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4
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The suggestion [that we should work on Sundays] [that you proposed] was rejected.

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Adjunct clauses

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5
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[I] broke my computer (Semantic Role)

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Agent

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6
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He broke [my car] (Semantic Role)

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Affected

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7
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[The earthquake] destroyed the city (Semantic Role)

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Force

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8
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I opened the door with [this key] (Semantic Role)

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Instrument

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9
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The window was broken [with a stone] (Semantic Role)

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Instrument

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10
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The window was broken [by a stone] (Semantic Role)

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Force

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11
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[I] Love her (Semantic Role)

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Experiencer

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12
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I love [her] (Semantic Role)

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Stimulous

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13
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[Mary] lives in London (Semantic Role)

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Located

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14
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Mary lives in [London] (Semantic Role)

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Locative

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15
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[The meeting] is tomorrow (Semantic Role)

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Eventive or event

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16
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The meeting is [tomorrow] (Semantic Role)

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Time

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17
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I painted [my flat] myself (Semantic Role)

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Affected (It already exists)

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18
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Picasso painted [this picture] (Semantic Role)

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Effected (just created)

19
Q

She gave [me] 200$ (Semantic Role)

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Beneficiary

20
Q

She gave [me] 200$ for you (Semantic Role)

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Recipient

21
Q

She gave me 200$ for [you] (Semantic Role)

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Beneficiary

22
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I found the door [open] (Semantic Role)

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Current attribute, the action comes from the past and extends up to the present.

23
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I broke the door [open] (Semantic Role)

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Resulting attribute, an action causes a resulting state.

24
Q

Mary expected to win

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Subject-controlled PRO

25
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Mary asked him to come

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Object-controlled PRO

26
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My brother, spreaking frankly, is very lazy

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Speaker-conrtolled PRO

27
Q

Smoking is dangerous

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Generic PRO

28
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The attachment rule

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A syntactic rule which establishes that, in adverbial clauses, (except from disjuncts), if they are subjectless, subject-controlled PRO always applies.
Disjuncts are excluded because they are only speaker-controlled PRO.

29
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Mary happened to be rich

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Subject to subject Raising

30
Q

Mary is hard to convince

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Object to subject raising

31
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I expect John to pass the exam

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Subject to object raising

32
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Teresa is known to be a CIA spy

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Passive raising

33
Q

Functional classification for “It’s a pleasure to teach you”

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Optional

34
Q

Functional classification for “She wanted me to come”

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Obligatory

35
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Functional classification for “She’s probable to win”

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Ungrammatical

36
Q

I want you to put the bag [there]

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Deictic There

37
Q

Mary lives in London and that’s why I’m going [there]

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Pro-form there

38
Q

[There] is a student outside

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Existential there

39
Q

[Frankly], you are a fool

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Disjunct

40
Q

'’She is very intelligent, [I know], but very lazy”

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Comment Clause

41
Q

Ways to distinguish comment clause

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> Conjunction “That” is not used
There is a change of entonation
It is movable

42
Q

Notional Meaning

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Concept itself, the definition given in a dictionary

43
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Discoursive meaning

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The position of the speaker about a fact (different pronunciation signaling amazement or disappointment for example)

44
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Deictic meaning

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Meaning only retrievable if there is some shared context with the speaker