3.
a1. Dick finally decided which boat to buy.
a2. While on the boat Dick came to a final decision (about something).
b1. It was a shock that they appointed that professor.
b2. The professorís appointment (to see that drug dealer, for example) was a real
shocker.
c1. Both the squares and the circles on that design are big.
c2. The design has circles; it also has big squares (who knows what size the circles
are?).
d1. That sheepdog has so much hair hanging down around his mouth that he canít eat.
d2. Iím not really into eating hairy things, and thatís why I just couldnít possibly
eat that sheepdog.
e1. The hair tonic is invisible ...
e2. The man using the hair tonic is invisible, like Claude Rains.
4. The magician touched the child with the wand.
a. (The magician touched the child ó the child holding a wand. ëwith the wandí goes
with the noun ëchildí)
b. (With a wand (not a hand) the magician touched the child. ëwith the wandí goes
with the verb ëtouchí)
7. (See the TAs in office hours for trees.)
a. The puppy found the child
b. A frightened passenger landed the crippled airline.
c. The house on the hill collapsed in the wind.
d. the ice melted.
e. The hot sun melted the ice
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a. ëlocated is transitiveí, so the S needs a Direct Object.
b. ëweepí is intransitive, therefore canít have a DO ëapostlesí.
c. The adjective ëhopefulí is subcategorized for an S but not a PP (so ëRobert is
hopeful that he can goí is OK).
d. The adjective ëfondí is subcategorized for a PP but not an S (so ëRobert is fond
of fox terriersí is OK).
e. ëlaughí requires a PP, not an NP (so ëThe children laughed at the maní is OK)
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