Unit 4: Syntax

 


Unit 4: Syntax: Subordinate sentences with complements and with adjuncts

Directions: Examine the following sentences
1. Identify the main verb in each of them.
2. Identify if what comes after the verb is a complement or an adjunct.


1. Valderrama remembered that even th e playmaker can advance forward if he wishes.
2. I remembered to attack the massive sandwich.
3. Once the root cause was addressed the parents' marital problems the physical ailments ceased.
4. I have ceased playing tennis.
5. Dr Advani had told the consultants looking after him that he had ceased practising.
6. Ferguson, too, was quick to insist yesterday that Hughes had not been written out of his plans.
7. Doctors in casualty departmen
ts up and down the country insist that the festive dumping phenomenon is widespread.
8. the City which, instead, is concerned about attempts by Cellnet to knock it off top slot.
9. Everyone seemed to forget that the person whose interest needs most protection in
a courtroom is the accused.
10. Russian helicopters fired rockets at the place where his unit had just been.
11. But must we dismantle the whole concept of free will in order to admit that people are affected by what
happens to them in childhood?
12. Dr Martin Luther King led a march from here to Montgomery, on March 21, 1965, to press for a revamp
of the voting rights laws, in order to allow all Americans the opportunity to choose those who governed them regardless of race, education and land ownership.







 


 

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