1. What is the difference between an adjective and an adjectival?
2. Show that the following are simple sentences:
| a. | The weather changed. |
| b. | The teacher was chairwoman. |
| c. | The cliffs were indescribable. |
| d. | There were forty-three subscribers. |
| e. | The athlete threw a javelin. |
| f. | There is mold on the bread. |
| g. | The widows are in mourning. |
3. Compare the first phrase structure rule of English with the first phrase structure rule of the predicate calculus. What accounts for this difference?
4. What are the three forms of an argument in English as described in [P9]? What are the three principal forms of an argument in the predicate calculus? Do these logical classes correspond in any simple way with the syntactic classes?
5. From [P13] and [P14] count the number of different structures that a determiner phrase may have. Does the convention concerning null reflexes apply here?
6. Give an example of a sentence that contains an adverbial in the predicate, one in the verb phrase, and one following the copula. Where would these concepts be expressed in the predicate calculus?
7. Name the nine uses of an adverb phrase. How many of these occur with the copula? Which kinds of adverb phrase may be required as complement of a verb?
8. The term "object complement" is ambiguous. What are its two meanings? Can an adjective phrase be an object complement?
9. What is the difference between a definitional adjective and a classificatory adjective? Give a sentence that allows both interpretations and describe the two meanings.
10. What is the difference between a restrictive adjective and a non-restrictive adjective? Give a sentence that allows both interpretations and describe the two meanings.
11. Give some examples of complementizers sometimes required by certain adjectives.