Chapter 8
Adverbials, Auxiliaries, and Sentence Types
Exercise 8.6Questions and Negative Sentences
Give tree diagrams of the D structures for the following sentences. Assume that D structure strings are positive, active, and declarative, and that the dummy auxiliary do is added later.
Should Canada sell Russia some wheat this year?
Are faculty trusted by the students?
Do you agree with the president?
Does the university grant students fellowships?
Didn’t he tell his colleagues the news?
He wasn’t sad about the news.
Is she being interviewed tonight on the evening news?
Could you have answered the questions at the end of the chapter?
Isn’t the government changing those rather outdated and complicated regulations soon?
Example: Hasn’t the bridge been repaired since the earthquake?
(Hint: You should begin by making the sentence nonnegative, nonpassive, and noninterrogative.)
Answer: Ø pres have -en repair the bridge since the earthquake