Theoretical English Grammar. Part 1. Morphology. Бочарова М.В. - 38 стр.

Task 6. The following passage contains several nonsense words, which are un-
derlined. Identify the word class of each made-up word. Briefly state what evi-
dence you used to determine the word class.


Other reports have remanstroted an even chranger positive bitegration with
plasma charestarob, which is the main cholesterol-carrying wisotrotein.


Task 7. Identify the type of the genitive in the sentences below.


1. This follows his company’s successful outdoor production of Shakespeare’s A
   Midsummer Night’s Dream in Saltburn’s* Valley Gardens last summer.
   * Saltburn = a place in Scotland.
2. Bank’s net loss.
Europe’s richest indoor women’s tennis tournament in Brighton is in danger of
collapsing after Midland Bank yesterday withdrew their sponsorship.


Task 8. A. Do the genitive constructions below sound natural and correct? If
they don’t, why not?
         B. Can you rephrase them using prepositional constructions?
 1. his parents’ home
 2. the demonstrators’ crowd
 3. Spain’s inflation
 4. a grapes’ bunch
 5. the government’s denial of the need
 6. a paper’s sheet
 7. a book’s page
 8. This was a good idea of Johnny’s.
 9. It’s not my handwriting. It’s Celina’s.
 10. the brutal child’s murder
 11. the bread’s basket

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