Posted: September 13th, 2017

Sentences

Sentences

write sentences with embedded referential objects, but I need you to write more following the structures given to you in the following tables.
Types of sentences
i.    Sentences with embedded referential pronominal object (both ANIMATE (as in 1) and INANIMATE (as in 2) below).
Note all these sentences must be either complement clauses or adverbial clauses. With adverbial clauses, please only use before, when, until, or whenever.
Examples    Notes (1)    Notes (2)
1.    Bill complains that the teacher stopped himfrom playing football.

2.    I am always worried that I will miss the train when I have to catch it.    Note the object of the embedded clause (him) refers back to the subject of the matrix (main) clauseBill (in1).

Note the object of the embedded clause (it in 2,refers back to the object of the first clause- train.

1.    Write 4 sentences like this in (1) with ANIMATE embedded object.
The term animate is used to denote (the gender of) an expression which denotes a living being (e.g. a human being or animal)

2.    Write 10 sentences like this in (1) with INANIMATE embedded objects.
The term inanimate is used in relation to an expression which denotes lifeless entities

Please in some of these sentences, try to make the object followed by few words like in (1), while in the others make it appears in the last of the sentence as in (2).

ii.    Sentences with Embedded subject verb agreement.

Examples    Notes (1)    Notes (2)
3.    Ann hopes that her father comesback.

4.    Ann insisted that the cafeteria offers the best food in town.    •    Note the agreement between the embedded subjects and the embedded verbs in these sentences.

•    Please always use 3rd person subject.

•    Please always use simple present tense.    3.    Write 2 sentences like this in (3) with ANIMATE embedded subject.

4.    Write 4 sentences like this in (4) with INANIMATE embedded subject.

iii.    Adverbial Clauses of Time

Subordinate conjunction beginning the clause:    Sentences    Notes

When
Whenever
Before
Until
You are kindly requested to use only this list of words (when, whenever, before, until)    1.    Our father left before we arrived from our school.
2.    The bird flew before I caught it.
? (Note the embedded subjects (we, I) refers to different subjects from the matrix (main) clauses our teacher, the bird)

*   *       Write 4 sentences using when, whenever, before, until.
Please note in these sentences, I want the subject of the embedded clause DOES NOT refer to the main subject.

You are kindly requested to use onlyfrom this list of verbs in the embedded clause (Get, start, go, left, finish, come, arrive, feel, see, watch, play, fall, find,

iv.    Complement clause
Main verbs     Example    Notes

With the complement clauses, please use
believe, tell, say, know, think,

John’s mother thinks that he left his wife.

Write 4 sentences using some these verbs (Get, start, go, left, finish, come, arrive, feel, see, watch, play, fall, find,) once in a sentence.

•    All these sentences must consist of only one sentence (either complex or compound).
•    Words used in these sentences must be from the most common words in English according to the National British Corpus; you can find a list of these words in the following website: http://www.macmillandictionary.com/learn/clear-definitions.html
•    Please pay attention to sentence length. So, the number of word in each sentence should not be more than 11 words.
•    Please avoid (do not use) phrasal-verbs – e.g. bring him up, … etc.
•    Please DO NOT use AUXILARY VERBS (be: am is, are, may, might, should, ….) within the EMBEDED CLAUSES OR COMPLEMENT CLAUSES,
•    Please use different verbs when constructing the sentences.
•    Please use simple tenses, either present or past simple tense. Again please do not focus only on one tense but write half of the sentences in the present and the others in the past.
If you need more clarification, please let me know.