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 (c) or an adjunct (a).


1. Valderrama remembered that even th e playmaker can advance forward if he wishes.-c
2. I remembered to attack the massive sandwich-c.
3. I have ceased pl
aying tennis-c.
4. Dr Advani had told the consultants looking after him that he had ceased practising-c.
5. Ferguson, too, was quick to insist yesterday that Hughes had not been written out of his plans-c.
6. Doctors in casualty departments up and down the country insist that the festive dumping phenomenon is widespread-c.
7. Everyone seemed to forget that the person whose interest needs most protection in a courtroom is the accused-c.
8. Russian helicopters fired rockets at the place where his unit had just been-a.
9. 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-a?
10. 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-a, in order to allow all Americans the opportunity to choose those who governed them regardless of race, education and land ownership-a.







 


 

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