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    The document is a passage from a book describing a hiker who has become lost and exhausted on a trail. It provides details about the hiker's physical state, unfamiliar surroundings, and growing sense of fear and uncertainty. The hiker eventually hears gunshots in the distance that seem welcoming, follows the sound, and discovers a village clinging to the hillside, providing a sense of relief and direction. The document then lists multiple choice questions about identifying different phrase types in the passage and analyzing the syntactic structure of sample sentences.

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    SYNTAX 2

    Exercise 1 [Chalker]
    Read the passage and then choose the odd form out in each set listed below.
    I sat down on a stone. I was exhausted. My ankle was aching and leg muscles that I never
    knew existed were beginning to complain. The sun was casting long shadows and the
    silence worried me. There was no sign of the path, and no other trail showed looked at all
    convincing. I could no see a single house, there were no familiar landmarks, and the
    Indus was only a glinting trickle far below. I felt tired, miserable and slightly frightened. I
    sat for ten minutes without moving, unsure of what to do. All options seemed equally
    unappealing. Then immediately above me, I heard gunshots. On other occasions the noise
    might have been sinister. Now they seemed welcoming, almost homely. I clambered
    upwards, and soon found a track. Following it around a bluff of rock I saw the source of
    the shots: a village of half-timbered huts clinging to the sheer hillside. (William
    Dalrymple: In Xanadu A Quest)
    1. verb phrases: was exhausted was aching were beginning to complain
    could not see might have been
    2. noun phrases: leg muscles that I never knew existed casting long shadows
    me no sign of the path the source of the shots
    3. adjective phrases:tired, miserable and slightly frightened unsure of what to do
    equally unappealing almost homely following it
    4. adverb phrases: never far below immediately above
    now single
    5. prepositional phrases: on a stone for ten minutes without moving
    on other occasion almost homely

    Exercise 2 [Thornbury]
    What phrase type is each of the underlined phrase, and what is the head of each?

    I felt excited, but also a little happy and alarmed. I wished I had not started out in the
    evening.
    When I got to the river banks he sun still seemed high but it was turning orange. I spoke
    to an old man who was smoking his pipe near the water and asked him if it was Steyning
    that I could see on the other bank. (from I Left My Grandfather’s House by D. Welch)
    Exercise 3
    Circle and label the immediate constituents of the underlined syntagms/ phrases.

    • He disappeared with the girl from Uganda.


    • He disappeared with the girl from Uganda.
    • He disappeared with the girl from Uganda.
    • He disappeared with the girl from Uganda.
    • He disappeared with her.
    • He met his friend from Uganda in the park.
    • He met her in the park.
    • He gave her flowers.
    • He put the flowers in the vase on the mantelpiece.
    • The cat killed the rat on the mat.

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