English Grammar

A University Course

Third Edition

Chapter 5

Chapter 5 Conceptualising Patterns of Experience (Explanatory material)

  • 5.19.1  Identify the type of process (material, mental, relational) in each of the following clauses.
  • 5.19.2  Revise the section on valency before addressing the following exercise. For the example Jill paid the waiter 50 Euros, work out:
    • a) the number of inherent participants, including the Subject.
    • b) the number of actualised participants.
    • c) whether the verb’s valency is reduced or not.
  • 5.20.1 Say whether the italicised nominal group is an Agentive subject, an Affected subject of an involuntary process of happening, or a Force subject.
  • 5.21.1 Say whether the following clauses are causative-transitive. If so, write underneath the corresponding anti-causative. Where there is no anti-causative, explain why this is so.
  • 5.22.1 Which of the following has a Recipient participant and which has a Beneficiary? Give the alternative structure with a preposition.
  • 5.23.1 Provide an alternative construction so that Experiencer conflates with the subject.
  • 5.24.1 Identify the types of being in the following clauses. Which are reversible?
  • 5.25.1 Say which of the following clauses express a process of saying, behaving or existing.
  • 5.26.1 Say which of the italicised items is Instrument, Means/Reason or Range.
  • 5.27.1 Express the content of the following sentences in a simpler, less nominalised fashion.