知识点二：Knowledge of sentence structure
Exercise I. Fill in the blanks
1. The same rule can be used repeatedly to create infinite sentences, which is called ________ .
2. ________ is one or more string(s) of words has/have more than one meaning.
3. ________ means that different arrangements of the same words have different meanings.
4. Sentence relatedness refers to that sentences may be structurally variant but ________ .
5. A ________ is a class of words or phrases that can substitute for one another without loss of grammaticality.
Exercise II. Paraphrase the following ambiguous sentences.
1. Tom hated his boss and so do I.
2. Flying planes can be dangerous.
3. Can you see the man with a pair binoculars?
教师解析
Exercise 1
1. Recursion
2. Structural ambiguity
3. Word order
4. semantically related
5. Syntactic categories
Exercise 2:
(1) Tom hates his boss, and I hate mine.
Tom hates his boss, and I hate that person, too.
(2) Planes that are flying can be dangerous.
It can be dangerous to fly planes.
(3) Can you see the man who has a pair binoculars?
Can you see the man with the help of a pair binoculars?
Through what we have learned, have you had a deep understanding about the knowledge of sentence structure? Let’s come to the summary part.
