2014-12-08 Evening: sentence structure

Greg Malivuk
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Homework: grammar book p. 5 (all)
part 5
1 To get an A in every class won't be easy.
2 Was Lord of the Flies the name...
3 ...pair of jeans has pockets on...
My jeans have pockets. / My new pair of jeans has pockets.
4 What they're doing in Parliament doesn't interest me.
5 Being absent from class a lot isn't going to improve...
6 "None of you are my friends any more!" (sentences #14 on p. 4)
(formal: None of you is my friend any more.)
7 Never have I had to listen...
(more common: I have never had to listen...)
8 ..., which wasn't about dancing at all.
9 Is statistics more difficult than economics?
10 These new sunglasses aren't made of glass or plastic or anything like that.
I never had to listen...
Never did I have to listen...
* Never I had to listen... (incorrect)
never, rarely, little, only, seldom - negative adverbs, invert subject+verb when you start a sentence with one of these words
part 6
1 was (c)
2 was (e)
3 is (a) - It's a lot of weight to carry. (weight is noncount)
4 is (d) - "as well as all his friends" is not grammatically the same as "and all his friend", even though it has the same meaning
5 is (b) (could be "are" in British English)
Romeo and Juliet are two teenagers who fall in love.
(We usually use present tense to talk about stories.)
part 7
1 orchestra have (__ and __ = "they")
2 everybody has
3 Nobody...has (nobody, anybody, somebody, everybody - singular verbs)
4 committee have ("all" forces the plural verb) ("has" is okay in US English)
5 Darts has
6 teachers has ("none" = "not one" = singular verb in formal situations) #13
7 police have ("police" is always plural)
8 Bacon and eggs has been... ("bacon and eggs" is a single meal, like "darts" is a single game and "the Simpsons" is a single TV show)

Bacon and eggs is my favorite breakfast.
My favorite breakfast is bacon and eggs.

(subject complement is singular, so we can use "is" even though the subject is plural)