Modern Grammar - Assignment 16 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 to consider the type of verb when building the VP in each sentence, including the couple new ones in the handout given out in class on Tuesday -- and available as "Some VP Rules and Others" on CANVAS. Also watch for two-word verbs (aka phrasal verbs) that will require you to use the rule on that same handout about building a bigger verb from a verb and a particle. 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. (Hint: Notice that this is your first sentence that builds a VP out a V followed by TWO separate NPs...)
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. (Your first use of the phrasal verb rule)
7. Few of the items on the agenda were of any importance.
8. I traded in my old car.
9. We drove our friends from their old home in Atlanta to their new home in Baltimore. (See if you can figure out what new VP rule to use.)