tailieunhanh - The grammar book teacher course part 17

A new organizational framework, which consists of a systematic presentation of the form, meaning, and use of each grammatical structure, improves readers' ability to access, assimilate, and make pedagogic sense of the material presented. | Chapter 6 More Phrase Structure Rules 107 Exercises Test your knowledge of the structures introduced. I. Provide an original example sentence illustrating each of the following terms. Underline the pertinent word s in your example. a. imperative e. perfect aspect b. modal f. progressive aspect c. verb with two objects g. object noun predicate d. phrasal modal 2. Draw tree diagrams for the following sentences using the phrase structure rules and mapping rules given in this chapter a. The quiet girls talked after the teachers left. g. Perhaps Mary has been b. Surely John exercises on Sunday. studying in the library. c. The baby cried because she was hungry. h. We gave some candy to the d. Tan is going to take that class next term. children. e. Anne could have been doing her homework i. Ralph put the chairs in the f. Fortunately his brothers work very quietly. hallway. Test your ability to apply what you know. 3. The following sentences contain errors that arc commonly made by ESL EFL learners. How would you make your students aware of these problems What exercises would you use to practice the correct pattern and prevent such errors from recurring a. She can swims very fast. d. The man been to Chicago twice. b. Jane is jump rope. e. Sarah put the books. c. Bob will to come tomorrow. 4. Although phrase structure rules should not be presented to ESL EFL students in the forms given in this chapter they do yield important insights into English structure. One of the insights that should be emphasized in grammar classes has to do with the composition of the progressive aspect In light of the following errors by different ESL learners attempting to form the progressive aspect what should be emphasized for each of them a. She running now. b. She is run now. 5. One of your students asks you why a certain grammar text claims that English has no future tense. This student feels that English has a future tense. How would you answer this question Bibliography References Clark R.