Cigarette smoke

Please answer the questions below in a word document and submit it by the due date.

1. In the sentences below, identify the grammatical relation of each underlined NP (11 points).
2. Cigarette smoke contains carbon monoxide.
3. He won’t tell me unless I conceal his identity.
4. Jakob says he doesn’t have enough friends.
5. My friend adopted the tiniest cat.
6. Water bottles can be made of recyclable plastic.
7. Draw syntactic trees for the following sentences. Where there is a syntactic operation performed, identify it. If it’s an embedded or relative clause, identify it as such. Use the software TreeForm to draw the trees. (14 points, 2 points each sentence)
8. My cat loves sardines.
9. I gave a sardine to my cat
10. Did your cat eat the sardine?
11. What did your cat eat?
12. My cat ate the sardine that I bought.
13. I said that my cat ate the sardine.
14. My cat ate the sardine that I gave him.
15. Draw syntactic trees for the Portuguese sentences below. Word by word translations is provided. (6 points, 2 points each sentence)
16. O gato comeu a sardinha.
    The cat ate the sardine.
17. O gato negro olhou para o menino.
    the cat black looked at the boy.
18. O gato negro dorme na sala.
    the black cat sleeps in the room.
19. Identify the syntactic role of the relativized NP within the relative clause in the sentences below (6 points).
20. This is the cat that I saw.
21. This is the cat that ran away.
22. This is the cat that I gave to my mother.
23. This is the cat that I gave food to.
24. This is the cat whose whiskers are black.
25. This is the cat that needs to lose weight.
26. Read Finegan chapter 11 and explain an interesting syntactic aspect of African American Vernacular English. (3 points)