COMPLEX NP - Worksheet 4 - Premodification - Participial Adjectives

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FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS – UNT ENGLISH SYNTAX II- 2020 THE COMPLEX NOUN PHRASE WORKSHEET 4

PREMODIFICATION BY PARTICIPIAL ADJECTIVES Paraphrase the items underlined in the sentences below. Everything here depends on the potentiality of the participle to indicate a permanent or characteristic feature. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

The Commander was pacing the quarter-deck with the navigating officer. I read Edgar Allan Poe's tales with a sort of shackled fascination. I learned to climb the tree with a kind of absent-minded dexterity. The paid servants had their specified position in the household. The roses grew in great perfumed masses all over the garden. I took a couple of furnished rooms in Vincent Square. The French tutor was a charming young lady. The outstanding discovery of sunspot activity was made by a German chemist. He concluded that sunspots vary in a fairly well-defined cycle of about eleven years. 10. Hong Kong is a mainly Cantonese-speaking city. 11. This writer makes his point with terrifying emphasis. 12. Sheila is the adopted daughter of a well-known banker. 13. You have a standing invitation to come with us at any time. 14. The Chief felt thoroughly lost in the crowded streets of London. 15. A surprising factor has been the political energy of the Swiss.

KEY: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

the officer responsible for navigating a fascination from which I could not escape a dexterity which came without thinking the servants who were paid, a definite position masses that perfumed the garden all over/ masses full of perfume a couple of rooms which had furniture a lady who was young and charming the discovery that impressed everybody a cycle that has been defined fairly well a city whose inhabitants speak mainly Cantonese emphasis which terrifies everyone the daughter who was adopted by an invitation that is still standing/open streets that were crowded a factor that surprises us