Acosta Espina Daniela GRAMIMIDTERM2

ISFD Sofía Esther Broquen de Spangenberg. Profesorado de Inglés . GRAMMAR # I.
Instructor: Vanesa Fernández
STUDENT´S NAME: Daniela Acosta Espina ID NUMBER: 95.431.799
DATE: 2/11/2020
SECOND MIDTERM TEST
- You have 2 hours to work on your exam.

- TIME LIMIT: Today Monday 2nd November 12.30 pm (angelavanesafernandez@gmail.com)
- The name of your file should read
LastnameFirstNameGRAMIMIDTERM1
e.g. FernandezAngelaGRAMIMIDTERM1
- This is INDIVIDUAL WORK. Plagiarism will be penalized. Once you finish your exam, you should sign the
following honor pledge.
HONOR PLEDGE
“I affirm that I have not given nor received any unauthorized help on this exam, and that all work done is my
own.”
Signature (full name and id number):
………………………………………………………………………Daniela Milagros Acosta Espina
95.431.799…………………
Consider the following text.
1. [Once there was a greedy dog (that often had to pay for his greed)]. [Each time the dog told himself (he had
learnt the lesson {and promised he would never be greedy again.})] [Sadly, he soon forgot his promises (and
was as greedy as ever.)]
[BE (PAY)]
[TELL (LEARNT {PROMISE})] [TELL (LEARNT)] [PROMISED]
[FORGOT (BE)] [FORGOT] [BE]
Check where you've placed brackets and the skeleton. What relationship do these clauses have among
each other?
2. [One afternoon, (as the dog was terribly hungry,) it left his place (to look for some food.)] [Just outside his
house, there was a bridge.] [He thought (that {if he went to the other side of the bridge,} he would find better
leftovers.)]
[(WAS) LEFT (LOOK for)]
[BE]
[THOUGHT ({WENT} FIND)]
3. [(As walking across the wooden bridge,) he started sniffing around for food.] [Suddenly, he spotted a four
juicy lamb bones dropped on the street.] [Finding food without much effort (made him think {he was a lucky
dog.})]
[(WALKING) SNIFFING]
[SPOTTED] there's a process missing [SPOTTED (DROPPED)]
[FINDING (THINK {WAS})] there's a process missing [FINDING (MADE {THINK <WAS>})]
ISFD Sofía Esther Broquen de Spangenberg. Profesorado de Inglés . GRAMMAR # I. Instructor: Vanesa Fernández
DATE: 2/11/2020
4. [(Without wasting any time), the very hungry dog picked up the bones and (ran towards his house {so that he
didn´t have to share them with any other dog.})]
[(WASTING) PICK up (RAN {SHARE})] [(WASTING) PICK UP] [RAN (SHARE)]
5. [(While crossing the wooden bridge,) the dog looked down into the deep river.] [There he saw his own
reflection.] [The foolish dog mistook it for another dog.] [What he wanted now (was that dog´s bone.)]
[(CROSSING) LOOK]
[SAW]
[MISTOOK]
[WANT (WAS)] [WANT]
6. [The greedy dog looked at his reflection and growled.] [The reflection growled back, too.] [This made the dog
get angry.] [As he opened his mouth to bark, the bones in his mouth fell into the river.] [But it was too late.] [He
had lost the pieces of bone because of his greed.] [Now he had to go hungry.]
[LOOK (GROWL)]
[GROWL]
[MAKE (GET)]
[(OPENED {BARK}) FELL]
[WAS]
[LOST]
[GO]
DATE: 2/11/2020
i. In the text
1). Mark clause complexes and clauses with brackets [({ })].underline the process of each clause
2). Complete this chart with the LOGICAL SKELETON for the whole text.
[BE (PAY)]
Paragraph #1 [TELL (LEARNT {PROMISE})]
[FORGOT (BE)]
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
[BE (PAY)]
[TELL (LEARNT)] [PROMISED]
[FORGOT] [BE]
[(WAS) LEFT (LOOK for)]
Paragraph #2 [BE]
[THOUGHT ({WENT} FIND)]
Paragraph #3 [SPOTTED] there's a process missing
[FINDING (THINK {WAS})]
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
[SPOTTED (DROPPED)]
[FINDING (MADE {THINK <WAS>})]
Paragraph #4 [(WASTING) PICK (RAN {SHARE})]
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
[(WASTING) PICK UP] [RAN (SHARE)]

DATE: 2/11/2020
[(CROSSING) LOOK]
Paragraph #5 [SAW]
[MISTOOK]
[WANT (WAS)]
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
[(CROSSING) LOOK]
[SAW]
[MISTOOK]
[WANT]
Paragraph #6 [LOOK (GROWL)]
[GROWL]
[MAKE (GET)]
[(OPENED {BARK}) FELL]
[WAS]
[LOST]
[GO]
3) Identify and write in full the DEPENDENT CLAUSES of paragraphs 1,2,3,5 and fully classify them in
terms of TENSE, TYPE and FUNCTION.
PARAGRAPH #1:
a.) that often had to pay for his greed
finite, past
noun clause how do you know it's a relative clause?

DATE: 2/11/2020
(This is not a noun clause because it cannot be replaced by “it”. It is a relative clause because it talking
about or describing the subject)
b.) he had learnt the lesson
finite, present
noun clause
PARAGRAPH #2:
a.) as the dog was terribly hungry
finite, past
relative clause how do you know it's a relative clause?
(At first I thought this was mainly describing the dog but it is modifying the main process, and it starts
with a subordinating conjunction, so it is an adverbial clause.]
b.) to look for some food.
non-finite, full infinitive
Adverbial clause
function?
c.) that he would find better leftovers.
finite, past
noun clause which of these 2 clauses is dependent?
d.) if he went to the other side of the bridge
finite, past
noun clause how can you tell it's a noun clause?
(Because it can be replaced by “this”. “He thought this”)
PARAGRAPH #3:
a.) As walking across the wooden bridge
non-finite, gerund how can you tell it's the gerund?
adverbial clause
b.) made him think {he was a lucky dog.}
finite, past
DATE: 2/11/2020
relative clause
how can you tell it's a relative clause? which one?
PARAGRAPH #5:
a.) While crossing the wooden bridge
non-finite,gerund
adverbial clause
b.) was that dog´s bone.
finite, past
noun clause
really?
(In the new skeleton this is not a dependant clause anymore)
4) FIND in the text and write in full:
a). An identified realized as a Wh clause + an identifier realized as a noun group.

…What he wanted now was that dog´s bone.
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
b). A receiver
…Each time the dog told
himself…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
c) A relational attributive process. Identify its participants.
………he (carrier) was (process) a lucky dog (attribute)
……………………………………………………………………………………………………..
d). An existential process
……[Once there was a greedy
dog………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
e). Lexical aspect
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
f). A verb group with modality and negative polarity.
…………didn´t have to
share…………………………………………………………………………………………………..
g). A prepositional group that functions as modifier in a noun group.

…………[(juicy lamb bones dropped) noun group] [(on the street) prepositional group]
…………………………………………………………………………………………………..
h). A marked topical theme that is a non-fine clause.
………While crossing the wooden bridge,
……………………………………………………………………………………………………..
i). A textual theme + an elliptical topical theme.
……While crossing the wooden
bridge………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
DATE: 2/11/2020
j). An interpersonal theme.
…Sadly, he soon forgot his
promises…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
k. A circumstance that is a noun group ( numeral + head noun)

…… One afternoon
l. A circumstance that is a clause.
… As walking across the wooden bridge
4. Analyze the NARRATIVE STRUCTURE of this text. Justify your answers using your analysis of
THEME and RHEME, tense, aspect and types of processes in the text.
This is a linear narrative because the events are presented in the order they occur, we can see this
realized through circumstances as marked themes . It is a fable (short story) with a clear
beginning, middle and ending (moral). Material processes are used to describe the actions of the
main character and mental processes are used to describe it’s inner world.
5. Analyze the NARRATOR in this text. Which type of narrator is this? Justify your answers using
MOOD, MODALITY, PERSON and EVALUATION in the text.
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ISFD Sofía Esther Broquen de Spangenberg. Profesorado de Inglés . GRAMMAR # I.

Instructor: Vanesa Fernández

STUDENT´S NAME: Daniela Acosta Espina ID NUMBER: 95.431.799

- You have 2 hours to work on your exam.

Consider the following text.

[TELL (LEARNT {PROMISE})] [TELL (LEARNT)] [PROMISED]

[FORGOT (BE)] [FORGOT] [BE]

[(WAS) LEFT (LOOK for)]

[THOUGHT ({WENT} FIND)]

[SPOTTED] there's a process missing [SPOTTED (DROPPED)]

STUDENT´S NAME: Daniela Acosta Espina ID NUMBER: 95.431.799

[(WASTING) PICK up (RAN {SHARE})] [(WASTING) PICK UP] [RAN (SHARE)]

[WANT (WAS)] [WANT]

[(OPENED {BARK}) FELL]

STUDENT´S NAME: Daniela Acosta Espina ID NUMBER: 95.431.799

Paragraph #1 [TELL (LEARNT {PROMISE})]

[TELL (LEARNT)] [PROMISED]

[(WAS) LEFT (LOOK for)]

[THOUGHT ({WENT} FIND)]

Paragraph #3 [SPOTTED] there's a process missing

[FINDING (THINK {WAS})]

[FINDING (MADE {THINK <WAS>})]

Paragraph #4 [(WASTING) PICK (RAN {SHARE})]

[(WASTING) PICK UP] [RAN (SHARE)]

STUDENT´S NAME: Daniela Acosta Espina ID NUMBER: 95.431.799

Paragraph #6 [LOOK (GROWL)]

[(OPENED {BARK}) FELL]

a.) that often had to pay for his greed

noun clause how do you know it's a relative clause?

STUDENT´S NAME: Daniela Acosta Espina ID NUMBER: 95.431.799

b.) he had learnt the lesson

a.) as the dog was terribly hungry

relative clause how do you know it's a relative clause?

b.) to look for some food.

non-finite, full infinitive

c.) that he would find better leftovers.

noun clause which of these 2 clauses is dependent?

d.) if he went to the other side of the bridge

noun clause how can you tell it's a noun clause?

(Because it can be replaced by “this”. “He thought this”)

a.) As walking across the wooden bridge

non-finite, gerund how can you tell it's the gerund?

b.) made him think {he was a lucky dog.}

STUDENT´S NAME: Daniela Acosta Espina ID NUMBER: 95.431.799

how can you tell it's a relative clause? which one?

a.) While crossing the wooden bridge

b.) was that dog´s bone.

(In the new skeleton this is not a dependant clause anymore)

4) FIND in the text and write in full:

a). An identified realized as a Wh clause + an identifier realized as a noun group.

g). A prepositional group that functions as modifier in a noun group.

STUDENT´S NAME: Daniela Acosta Espina ID NUMBER: 95.431.799

k. A circumstance that is a noun group ( numeral + head noun)

You need to go over this exam and improve it.

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