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    This document is a quiz for a syntax class at the University of Southern Mindanao in the Philippines. It contains 20 sentences to diagram and analyze according to phrase structure rules. It also contains 20 sentences to diagram the syntactic trees for. Students are instructed to write their name and section, construct sentences following phrase structure rules and draw tree diagrams, and draw trees for 20 sample sentences analyzing their syntactic structure. They are to email the completed quiz to the specified instructor by November 20, 2022.

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    UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MINDANAO

    Kabacan, Cotabato
    Philippines
    QUIZ
    EL 212: ENGLISH SYNTAX
    1st Sem, S.Y. 2022-2023

    GENERAL DIRECTIONS:
    1.. DON’T FORGET to write your NAME.
    3. Submit this quiz at 11:59pm of NOVEMBER 20, 2022 .
    4. EMAIL this quiz to [email protected]

    NAME:_______________________________________________Section: __________________

    I. CONSTRUCT your own sentences following the Phrase Structure


    Rules (PSRS) and DRAW a tree diagram.

    1-2 2 sentences for S→ S conj S


    3-4 2 sentences for S→ (sm) S’
    5-6 2 for NP→ Det AdjP N PP PP
    7-8 2 for NP→ NP conj NP
    9-10 2 for VP→ VP conj VP
    11-12 2 for VP→ Aux V AdvP PP
    13-14 2 for VP→ AdvP V NP NP
    15-16 2 for VP→ V PP PP PP
    17-18 2 for VP→ V NP NP PP PP
    19-20 2 for VP→ VP conj VP
    21-22 2 for VP→ V CP
    23-24 2 for NP→ Det N CP
    25-28 4 for S→ NP→Det N CP VP→V CP
    29-30 2 for NP→Det N PP PP PP

    II. DRAW THE TREES


    1. He rolled the ball down the hill.
    2. He filled the bath with water.
    3. He broke the vase into pieces.
    4. The ugly man from Nigeria found books of poems in the puddle.
    5. Abel wrote a volume of poems in Latin for Louise.
    6. Armadillos from the South often destroy old pillowcases with their snouts.
    7. People with boxes of old clothes lined up behind the door of the building with the
    leaky roof.
    8. That automobile factories abound in Michigan worries me greatly.

    1 | QUIZ EL 212: ENGLISH SYNTAX NOVEMBER 17-20, 2022


    9. No one understands that phrase structure rules explain the little understood
    phenomenon of the infinite length of sentences.
    10.My favorite language is a language with simple morphology and complicated
    syntax.
    11.Ivan got a noogie on Wednesday from the disgruntled students of phonology
    from Taipan.
    12.The collection of syntax articles with the red cover bores students of syntax in
    Tucson.
    13.The red volume of obscene verse from Italy shocked the puritan soul of the
    minister with the beard quite thoroughly yesterday.
    14.The biggest man in the room said that John danced an Irish jig from County
    Kerry to County Tipperary on Tuesday.
    15.A burlap sack of potatoes with mealy skins fell on the professor of linguistics with
    the terrible taste in T-shirts from the twelfth story of the Douglass Building last
    Friday.
    16.The bright green filing cabinet was filled to the brim with the most boring articles
    from a prestigious journal of linguistics with a moderately large readership.
    17.Stalin may think that Roosevelt is a fool.
    18.Robert thinks that students should eat asparagus.
    19.Martha said that Bill loved his cheerios in the morning.
    20.That notebook with the scribbles in the margin was stolen by Albert.

    2 | QUIZ EL 212: ENGLISH SYNTAX NOVEMBER 17-20, 2022

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