Advanced Grammar
Assignment
This assignment requires you to analyze sentences in paragraphs. You need to cite 2 (TWO) paragraphs from any
books, articles, etc then analyse the structure of each sentence. Do not forget
to mention the sources.
Example:
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Researchers used the Simon task, a test used to measure mental abilities
that are known to decline with age. Test takers saw a red or a blue square
flash on a computer screen and were told to depress one or the other of the two
"shift" keys depending on which color appeared. As previous research
has found, performance slowed when the colored squares moved from their
original positions. Three experiments showed that bilingual speakers of Cantonese and English, Tamil and English or French and English consistently outperformed English-only speakers, said the researchers at York University and the Rotman Research Institute in Toronto, and Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Paragraph
1:
Sentence 1: Researchers
used the Simon task, a test used to measure mental abilities that are known to
decline with age.
This sentence consists of;
·
Simple past tense; Reserchers (S) used
(V2) the Simon task (O).
·
Past participle in subordinate clause :
a test used (which were used) to measure mental abilities.
·
Adjective clause with passive voice:
mental abilities that are (to be) known (V3) to decline with age.
Sentence 2: Test
takers saw a red or a blue square flash on a computer screen and were told to
depress one or the other of the two "shift" keys depending on which
color appeared.
This sentence consists of;
·
Simple past tense : Test takers
(S) saw (V2) a red or a blue square flash (O) on a computer screen (Adv)
·
This sentence also formed from compound sentence
: Test takers saw a red or a blue square flash on a computer screen ( First Independent Sentence) and
(Conjuction) were told to depress one
or the other of the two "shift" keys (Second independent sentence.
Etc.
