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This document is a quiz for a syntax class at the University of Southern Mindanao in the Philippines. It contains 20 sentences to diagram and analyze according to phrase structure rules. It also contains 20 sentences to diagram the syntactic trees for. Students are instructed to write their name and section, construct sentences following phrase structure rules and draw tree diagrams, and draw trees for 20 sample sentences analyzing their syntactic structure. They are to email the completed quiz to the specified instructor by November 20, 2022.

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4 Quiz Syntax

This document is a quiz for a syntax class at the University of Southern Mindanao in the Philippines. It contains 20 sentences to diagram and analyze according to phrase structure rules. It also contains 20 sentences to diagram the syntactic trees for. Students are instructed to write their name and section, construct sentences following phrase structure rules and draw tree diagrams, and draw trees for 20 sample sentences analyzing their syntactic structure. They are to email the completed quiz to the specified instructor by November 20, 2022.

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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MINDANAO

Kabacan, Cotabato
Philippines
QUIZ
EL 212: ENGLISH SYNTAX
1st Sem, S.Y. 2022-2023

GENERAL DIRECTIONS:
1.. DON’T FORGET to write your NAME.
3. Submit this quiz at 11:59pm of NOVEMBER 20, 2022 .
4. EMAIL this quiz to [email protected]

NAME:_______________________________________________Section: __________________

I. CONSTRUCT your own sentences following the Phrase Structure


Rules (PSRS) and DRAW a tree diagram.

1-2 2 sentences for S→ S conj S


3-4 2 sentences for S→ (sm) S’
5-6 2 for NP→ Det AdjP N PP PP
7-8 2 for NP→ NP conj NP
9-10 2 for VP→ VP conj VP
11-12 2 for VP→ Aux V AdvP PP
13-14 2 for VP→ AdvP V NP NP
15-16 2 for VP→ V PP PP PP
17-18 2 for VP→ V NP NP PP PP
19-20 2 for VP→ VP conj VP
21-22 2 for VP→ V CP
23-24 2 for NP→ Det N CP
25-28 4 for S→ NP→Det N CP VP→V CP
29-30 2 for NP→Det N PP PP PP

II. DRAW THE TREES


1. He rolled the ball down the hill.
2. He filled the bath with water.
3. He broke the vase into pieces.
4. The ugly man from Nigeria found books of poems in the puddle.
5. Abel wrote a volume of poems in Latin for Louise.
6. Armadillos from the South often destroy old pillowcases with their snouts.
7. People with boxes of old clothes lined up behind the door of the building with the
leaky roof.
8. That automobile factories abound in Michigan worries me greatly.

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9. No one understands that phrase structure rules explain the little understood
phenomenon of the infinite length of sentences.
10.My favorite language is a language with simple morphology and complicated
syntax.
11.Ivan got a noogie on Wednesday from the disgruntled students of phonology
from Taipan.
12.The collection of syntax articles with the red cover bores students of syntax in
Tucson.
13.The red volume of obscene verse from Italy shocked the puritan soul of the
minister with the beard quite thoroughly yesterday.
14.The biggest man in the room said that John danced an Irish jig from County
Kerry to County Tipperary on Tuesday.
15.A burlap sack of potatoes with mealy skins fell on the professor of linguistics with
the terrible taste in T-shirts from the twelfth story of the Douglass Building last
Friday.
16.The bright green filing cabinet was filled to the brim with the most boring articles
from a prestigious journal of linguistics with a moderately large readership.
17.Stalin may think that Roosevelt is a fool.
18.Robert thinks that students should eat asparagus.
19.Martha said that Bill loved his cheerios in the morning.
20.That notebook with the scribbles in the margin was stolen by Albert.

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