Modern Grammar - Assignment 15 James Madison University

Instructions: Draw the correct tree structures for the following sentences and list the phrase structure rules needed to build each tree. Remember that some of these sentences use VP rules introduced in our last class. This assignment will be marked only as an acceptable or unacceptable effort.

1. No man is an island.
2. The talented instructor offered the awkward dancer free lessons.
3. Gertrude loves her unusual name.
4. The confused flock of sheep wandered from the pasture to the dangerous mountains on the edge of the ranch.
5. Those shy young lovers passed small, romantic messages to each other.
6. The boobytrapped safe blew up.
7. Few of the items on the agenda were of any importance.
8. I traded in my old car.