Dr. Johanna Rubba
English Department (Linguistics)
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Last updated  4/28/04
© 2004 Johanna Rubba
Key: Rubba Chs. 5 & 6 Exercises 5.1, 6.4, 6.6, 6.9
Scroll down for Ch. 6 keys.

Ex. 5.1 Finding subjects and predicates

Subject only is given. The remainder of each sentence is the predicate.

Subject
1. Cal Poly 6. Making less money
2. The student body 7. Marriage
3. Flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucia 8. Both genders
4. The program 9. The police officer
5. One trend that helps explain the decrease in enrollment 10. The suspect
7. Marriage  
 
Ex. 6.4 Identifying phrase types
1. so tall: ADJ phrase 4. extremely carefully: ADV phrase
2. will have examined: verb phrase 5. a really huge tent: Noun phrase (head: tent)
3. between the buildings: Prep. phrase (head: between) 6. very sad about your loss: ADJ phrase (head: sad)
Ex. 6.6 Identifying Phrase Roles (Parsing)

1.Subject: The Secretary of State
Direct object: an urgent message
Indirect object: the President

6.Subject: The loggers
Direct object: the old tree
Indirect object: (none)
2.Subject: My father
Direct object: a new car
Indirect object: (none)
7.Subject: My boyfriend
Direct object: a sandwich
Indirect object: me
3.Subject: My father
Direct object: a new car
Indirect object: my sister
8.Subject: Migratory birds
Direct object: most of the ants
Indirect object: (none)
4.Subject: The mayor
Direct object: the issue
Indirect object: (none)
9.Subject: (none)
Direct object: a grape
Indirect object: me
5.Subject: The old tree
Direct object: (none)
Indirect object: (none)
 
Ex. 6.9 Identifying Adverbials (Parsing)
1. Yesterday; in the vending machine 4.frantically
2. Fortunately; the very same day.

5. Sadly
(If you labelled ' for the computer-illiterate', this is acceptable. Some analysts consider this an indirect object.)

3. Every evening; after dinner; in our neighborhood