EXERCISES :
Present a full syntactic analysis (sentence, clause, phrase constituents, their functions and parts of speech) of the following sentences: 1. To be preci precise se,, he perfec perfecte ted d a repert repertoi oire re of bleats bleats that that exact exactly ly mimi mimick cked ed the the stupi stupid d comments of a goat in all various states of mind. 2. That dog dog was a very fine fine animal animal that takes takes each goat goat to its owner owner every evening evening,, without without Ibrahim the Mad having to do anything at all. 3. Clau Claude de empha emphasi sized zed the fact fact that that the writer writer was a Ph.D Ph.D.. who who must know know what what he was was talking about. 4. Nothing Nothing I said could could make make him reconsi reconsider der the slightest slightest bit bit of his informa information. tion. 5. At the same same time time he like liked d to descri describe be how, how, from from time to time time,, in order order to avoi avoid d the the expense and responsibility of domestic staff, he deliberately underwent long periods of undertaking his own cooking. 6. Then all all I had to do do was grab grab a thin foam foam pad and and my sleeping sleeping bag, bag, walk down down the the road, over the eroded clay hill where the mantis laid her eggs, along the creek downstream to the motorbike woods, and through the wood's bike trail to the dam. 7. I knew a man, who who believed believed that, that, if a man were permit permitted ted to make make the ballads ballads,, he need not care who made the laws of the nation. 8. I believe believe that the the man who kille killed d the lady was was one of the most most importan importantt figures figures of that age. 9. It was sad that that there there was a smile at the corne corners rs of his lips lips from the momen momentt of his birth, birth, from early boyhood he was a specialist in inappropriate interjections. 10. His most popular bleat, bleat, however, was that of a goat that has nothing nothing to say. 11. With the movement movement of fire investigation investigation from the Sheriff's Department Department to a county fire investigatio investigation n team, the investigation investigation of fires determined determined to be accidental in nature could be completed by volunteer members of the team who at the most would be reimbursed mileage expenses.
