Jumat, 29 Juni 2012

The Assignment


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.

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