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Grammar for A-level English Language Dick Hudson St Francis Xavier College, June 2008 Plan An animated description of basic sentence structure with some notation A collection of interesting variations with some terminology A grammatical treasure hunt in seven extracts The extracts Grammar joke The Owl and the Pussycat Oliver Twist Directgov: vehicle taxation A grammarians funeral (Browning) The Sun: Blues warned off Kaka move Northern Ireland Transcribed Corpus of Speech Basic sentence structure Hunt for … A verb with just one word as its subject and no O or P or other dependent. 1: He arrives, and, … A sentence containing the verb BE three times, with adjective or place adverb as P. 6: “But signing Kaka is impossible, because he is here at AC Milan and will be here until the end of his career.” Modifying a verb Hunt for … A verb modified by a monosyllabic adverb standing immediately before it. 4: Vehicles that are exempt from vehicle tax still need to display a tax disc. A verb with S, O and a following modifier, each of which is just one word. 2: So they took it away, and were married next day … Modifying a noun One alternative notation … Healthy babies with normal behaviour make parents happy. …and another… Healthy babies with normal behaviour make parents happy. …and another Healthy babies with normal behaviour make parents happy. Phrases and clauses A phrase is a group of words that depend on one word. That word is the phrase’s head. The phrase can be classified according to its head e.g. ‘noun phrase’, ‘preposition phrase’ A phrase headed by a verb is called a clause. Hunt for … no + adj + noun + preposition + the + noun 3: which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader Nouns contrasted only by their preceding adjectives and by this/that. 5: That low man seeks a little thing to do, / Sees it and does it:/ This high man, with a great thing to pursue, / Dies ere he knows it. (x 2) P