Language and its Structure: Morphosyntax 5 December 2023

I Determine the word category of the underlined words:

One Saturday morning in February 1893, a sale was in progress at the smart new rooms of a
London art dealer in a street leading to the flower market in Covent Garden. Smartly dressed
wealthy art lovers had come from over the country to bid for pictures from the estate of Henry
Hill. Lot 209, showing a man and a woman in a Paris café, was brought in by staff and placed
on the easel. Instead of quiet appraisal, a hush fell on the gallery, followed by low groans of
disgust, then the sibilant sound of hissing anger. Bizarrely, a group of well-off English art
lovers was jeering a painting by the acknowledged master Edgar Dégas.

II Extract all the adjectives and adverbs from the text. For adverbs, describe what they
modify:

The car carrying the two escaped killers, Rickman and Hoser, nosed carefully into the
unidentified deserted town. It was that darkest hour before dawn of a moonless starlit night.
Rickman, the more vicious man, was driving slowly, with cold, snake-like eyes and bloodless
mouth. Since they had barbarously murdered their three hostages, they had been attempting to
find their way towards the Mexican border, driving without lights on back roads and wagon
trails.

III Determine whether the words in italics are PREPOSITIONS or ADVERBS. There is one
example in which the italicized word is neither preposition nor adverb:

(1) The children had left their toys lying about all over the floor.
(2) Our friends live just across the road from us.
(3) It’s cold on deck. Why don’t you go below to your cabin?
(4) Some people have the telly on all day.
(5) Keep on walking.
(6) Keep on the right side.
(7) We usually go to a little pub up the street.
(8) Come on, drink up your beer.
(9) Tell me all about what happened.
(10) I’ll run off enough copies for all the students.
(11) Everything is going to change in the near future.
(12) In debates he puts his ideas across very well.
(13) Some plants can live at temperatures below freezing.
(14) The picture is not finished yet, but I’ll paint in the sky later.
(15) There were just a few light clouds high up in the sky.
(16) We’re a long way off understanding the real causes of this situation