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SAMPLE EXAM 1

SINTAXIS DE LA LENGUA INGLESA II


NAME:................................................................................................................................................................................................
A. Analyse the following sentences in FUNCTIONAL terms (S, P, Cs, Co, Od, Oi, Op, A, and Antic. It, Exist.
There): (0.2 x 20 = 4 points)

1. Driving to the airport can make me nervous.

2. The difficulty is who to appoint next

3. The newspapers called him a brave man.

4. I gave her whatever I had there.

5. They did not give the leaders time to establish contact.

6. Why did she refuse to lend me her red coat?

7. Spying on has become a multi-million pound industry lately.

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8. His face went white.

9. It has made him very unhappy to discover that his wife has been unfaithful to him.

10. The thing that keeps you from really enjoying it is the maintenance.

11. It worries me that there is no-one here.

12. If the three satellites had been deployed as the designers intended, their electronic sensing

devices would have provided valuable information.

13. He doesn’t like his daughter hanging around in places like that.

14. There emerged from the cave a huge brown bear

15. What are you thanking me for?

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16. I find it strange that he refuses to come

17. The committee found it very hard to settle the issue.

18. As he grew older, he became more cynical.

19. Will | he | make | a good teacher?

20. This explanation sounds incredible

B. Read the following sentences and: (0.25 x 12 = 3 points)

1. Identify the Dependent Clauses, if any (otherwise label it as Indep. Cl.), underline them, and say
whether they have a syntactic function within the sentence or within a group.
- If it realises a syntactic function within the inner structure of a group, underline it, and indicate th function and
type of group (below each part): Dep. Fin. Cl.: / Dep. Non-Fin.Cl.: q, ... in a NG/AdjG/AdvG/VG/ PP.
EXAMPLE: a. dddd | gggg vvvv | wwww ss tttt ffff b. mmm | mmxxx | nnnnn xbbb
Dep. Non-Fin. Cl: Od in Sentence Dep. Fin. Cl.: q in NG

1. This is the bird that was in the house Jack built.

2. The dedication they bring to the work pays dividends


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3. Although I have read many books by John Steinbeck, my favourite is The Pearl

4. Your sister said you haven't slept in two or three nights.

5. They agreed not to take any more breaks

6. We rang the doorbell, but no one answered it

7. When I visited England last summer, I saw The Mousetrap, a suspense play by Christie,

and I also toured her home in Devon

8. I’m always afraid that she’ s going to start talking about her shells.

9. The crew checked the ship and prepared it for sea.

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10. Where is the box that I left here yesterday?

11. Karen made a list of what was needed, and she double-checked it so that she wouldn't forget anything

12. My brother taught me how to skate.

C. Divide the following clauses into Mood and Residue and label all the elements within each one.

* PLEASE, use the following notational symbols: M; R; and S; F; MA; P; C; A !!!


(0.2 x 12 = 2.4 points)
M/R K | W | K
Example: mmmm aaaa ppp oooo tttt vvvv bb
S/F/MA/P/C/A X Q Y L T D Ñ

1. Why did you leave the convent so early?

2. What an epitaph that would make!

3. She was shopping in town, wasn’t she?

Oh, Yes, I remember


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4. Surprisingly, however, this tendency has in fact declined since 1970.

5. Frankly, she ’d hardly been anywhere.

6. Personally, I don’t like him.

7. On the following morning he did not go out early.

8. Don´t look at me like that!

9. Of course, Tim could not really banish care.

10. There should be another one like this, shouldn’t there?

11. Come into my parlour! Will you?

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12. Do let’s try and get it right this time

E. Draw a tree diagram for the following sentence (0, 6 points)


John knew that you helped the small boy last Friday

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