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Unit 2 - EX 1,2,3

The document provides examples of clauses and how to identify and label their components. It contains 20 exercises that illustrate direct objects, indirect objects, subject complements, object complements, and different types of clauses like finite clauses, non-finite clauses, and dependent clauses. Readers are asked to analyze sentences by dividing them into subject, verb, complement, object, and adjunct parts or by isolating and labeling dependent clauses.

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Unit 2 - EX 1,2,3

The document provides examples of clauses and how to identify and label their components. It contains 20 exercises that illustrate direct objects, indirect objects, subject complements, object complements, and different types of clauses like finite clauses, non-finite clauses, and dependent clauses. Readers are asked to analyze sentences by dividing them into subject, verb, complement, object, and adjunct parts or by isolating and labeling dependent clauses.

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Unit 2.

Clauses
Exercise 1 the parts underlined in the sentences below are the direct object (Od), the
indirect object (Oi), the subject complement (Cs) or the object complement (Co):
1. Will someone get a doctor, quickly! Od
2. George and Paul both became famous doctors. Cs
3. Do you call yourself a doctor? Od - Co
4. May I call you Jenny? Od - Co
5. May I call you a taxi or something. Oi - Od
6. Call me anything you like. Co
7. It’s so cold. I can’t get warm. Cs – Cs
8. I can’t get my hands warm. Od – Co
9. Keep quiet. Keep those children quiet. Cs – Od - Co
10. Can’t you give them something to keep them quiet. Oi – Od - Od
11. The young man was slowly going mad. Cs
12. His mother-in-law was driving him mad. Od – Co
13. The driver turned the corner too quickly. Od
14. The weather is turning warmer. Cs
15. The hot weather turned all the milk sour. Od – Co
16. The young man grew very depressed. Cs
17. He grew his hair long. Od – Co
18. He had made a great mistake. Od
19. His in-laws had simply made him their servant. Od – Co
20. His wife sometimes made him curry. Oi – Od
21. But this only made him more miserable. Od – Co
22. Show me your passport. Show me. Oi – Od – Oi
23. Did you see anyone? Did you say anything? Od – Od
24. I didn’t tell anybody anything. Oi – Od
Exercise 2. Divide each of the sentences below into its constituent parts, and label each
part S, V, C, O or A as in models A and B.
A Computers/are/fairly commonplace/today.
S V C A
B /Did/you/ever/eat/chicken?
V- S A -V O
1. Full-scale computers/ have/ a large number of program.
S V O
2. We/ must change/ all the programs/ tomorrow.
S V O Atime
3. Tomorrow/ will be/ a holiday/ here.
S V Cs Aplace
4. These bookshelves/ are becoming/ very popular/ in Sweden.
S V Cs Aplace
5. We/ have/ recently/ added/ an extra unit/ to them.
S V A V O Adirection
6. Will/ you/ give/ it/ a try?
V S V Oi Od
7. On July 7/, DDT/ was sprayed/ on the marsh from a helicopter.
Atime S V A
8. We/ all read/ too many books/ too quickly.
S V O Aadjunction
9. The young man/ grew/ restless/ in his mother-in-law’s house.
S V Cs Aplace
10. They/ had made/ him/ their son-in-law/ despite his objections.
S V O Co A
11. He/ found/ his mother-in-law/ greedy.
S V O Co
12. They/ had found/ him/ a charming young wife.
S V Oi Od
Exercise 3. Isolate and label the dependent clause or clauses in each of the sentences
below, as in the following two models,

a I think you can do it

You can do it: finite clause acting as 0 in the superordinate clause.

b Leaving the room, he tripped over the mat.

Leaving the room: non-finite, -ing participle clause, acting as A in the superordinate
clause, using the symbols S (=subject), O (=object), C (=complement), A (=adjunct).

1. That you could do it always knew.


FCL - O
2. That you can do it is still uncertain.
FCL - S
3. You can do it if you try.
FCL-A of condition
4. If you can do it, I’ll give you ten dollars.
FCL- A of condition
5. Standing here all day, I see many strange faces.
NFCL – ing participle clause - A
6. Standing here all day is extremely tiring.
NFCL – ing participle clause - S
7. My greatest pleasure is to listen to chamber music.
NF infinitive CL - C
8. To listen to chamber music is my greatest pleasure.
Infinitive NFCL - S
9. Exhausted after the long journey, I fell asleep at once.
- Ed participle NFCL – Areason
10. The long journey over, we relaxed in the warm sunshine.

NFCL – verbless clause - A

11. Glancing up at my tired face, she asked, in a rather grating voice, how I was
feeling.
NFCL – ing participle clause - A
12. Steinweg had a large room where we always breakfasted together.
FCL – Co
13. He was a delightful companion, always cheerful and considerate.
14. She had not asked life to be thus.

Infinitive NFCL

15. She sang when allowed to do so.

Ed participle NFCL -

16. She sang completely out of tune, so that permission was seldom granted.

17. What he saw both surprised and frightened him.

FCL - S

18. Since I have been especially invited to speak, /for you now to tell me /I cannot
do

FCL – A NFCL – infinitive clause - S FCL - O

so is quite unpardonable.

19. Having been invited to speak, and then being told to keep silent, I shall never
come

Ing participle NFCL Ing participle NFCL

here again as long as I live.

20. What I wanted to say was, as I didn’t know/ whether you were going to say/ that
FCL – S Finite - A Finite - O

you could come or you couldn’t, could you make it the following Saturday?

Finite - O

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