ELL101

Assignment Due 5/8/2017

Pg. 116

3. Which of the following expressions are structurally ambiguous and in what way?
(a) This can mean "for small boys and all girls" or "for small boys and small girls."
(b) The parents of the bride and the parents of the groom or the parents of the bride and the groom (not the
groom’s parents)
(c) Lexical ambiguity for legs and foot
(d) A teacher of English history or a person from England that teaches history
(e) Planes that are flying or being the actual person who flies planes
(f) The students complained that they couldn't understand to everyone or the students complained to everyone
who they couldn't understand

4. What part of speech is lovely in the following sentence?

We saw a lovely rainbow yesterday
Lovely is the adjective

7. Which of the following expressions would be generated by this phrase structure rule:
NP ---> (Art (Adj) N, Pro, PN)
(a) a lady
(b) the little girl
(c) her
(d) Annie
(e) the widow
(f) she's an old woman
(a), (b), (d), (e)