Chapter 10 Talking about People and Things (Explanatory material)

• 10.45.1 Which is right? Which is wrong? Mark by an * the one you think is wrong.
• 10.45.1 (2) ! Brain-teaser:  Why can’t you say: ‘Three new television series were inaugurated last year. One serie was taken off after a month’?
• 10.45 2 Write the symbolic structure of the following nominal groups.
• 10.45.3 Add a ‘countability marker’ to the following nouns.
• 10.45.4 Which of the following sentences do you think are Standard English?
• 10.45.5 You pick up the phone to make a call; how do you introduce yourself? Rate the relationship and the context required for each of the following. Two, possibly three, are not usable, for different reasons.
• 10.46.1 Say which of the following are correct expressions of generic reference.
• 10.47.1 Insert all, every or everything in the following sentences.
• 10.48.1 Place the listed modifiers in order before and after the noun.
• 10.48.2 Say which of the modifiers (adjs/nouns) are descriptors and which classifiers.
• 10.49.1 Match clauses with the postmodifiers listed below. Identify them as: defining clauses, non-defining (i.e. supplementive units of various levels (NGs, PPs, etc.)).
• 10.50.1 Say which of the following that-clauses are relative clauses and which are complement clauses.