Exercise sentences in this post:
- She stands up all day long
- She is young and strong
- But her shoes are not
- They are old
- She saw an ad in the paper
- All shoes were on sale at he shoe store
- She walked into the store
- She looked around
- She saw some black shoes
- They looked good
- She tried them on
- They were very comfortable
- They felt good
- They were only 25$
- She paid cash
- She wore them home
- She felt good
- She was ready for work the next day
First Attempt
She stands up all day long
- stands
- she
- up
- [for]
- day
- all
- long
- day
Sentence with an implied “for”:
She stands up for all day long.
It sounds fine, but not as good as my last sentence with an implied “for”. The meaning is right.
I don’t think “up” can be a preposition here. It seems to me that “up” is acting on “stands” as an adverb. “Up” isn’t really saying something is going a lower position to a higher one, rather it’s saying something is standing upraised all the time, so staying in the same position. Also if it was a preposition I think its prepositional object should be a sort of location. “Up a day” doesn’t make sense like “for a day” does.
19 min
She is young and strong
- is
- she
- and
- young
- strong
< 10 sec
But her shoes are not
- but
- are
- shoes
- her
- not
- shoes
- are
30 sec
On its own it’s a fragment. It’s a dependent clause where the independent clause is the previous sentence. We could make a child node for “but” that is the previous sentence.
They are old
- are
- they
- old
Instant.
She saw an ad in the paper
- saw
- she
- ad
- an
- in
- paper
- the
- paper
10 sec
All shoes were on sale at he shoe store
- were
- shoes
- all
- on
- sale
- at
- store
- the
- shoe
- store
- shoes
30 sec
She walked into the store
- walked
- she
- into
- store
- the
- store
< 10 sec
She looked around
- looked
- she
- around
Instant.
She saw some black shoes
- saw
- she
- shoes
- some
- black
10 sec
They looked good
- looked
- they
- good
Instant.
She tried them on
- tried
- she
- them
- on
< 10 sec
They were very comfortable
- were
- they
- comfortable
- very
Instant.
They felt good
- felt
- they
- good
Instant.
They were only 25$
- were
- they
- $25
- only
1 min
She paid cash
- paid
- she
- cash
Instant.
I think “cash” is a noun and is the object.
She wore them home
- wore
- she
- them
- home
Home is an adverb here.
30 sec
She felt good
- felt
- she
- good
Instant.
She was ready for work the next day
- was
- she
- ready
- for
- work
- day
- the
- next
I’m not sure whether to add a another “for” here like I did in the others. The “for” could act have both “work” and “the next day” as its children.
“The next day” means the same as tomorrow, which is an adverb. So I think I’ll just say “the next day” is an adverbial phrase.
6 min 45 sec
I was considering to add “for” or “in”, but “on” would be better.
If “the next day” is treated like a prepositional phrase than I think it can modify either “was” or “work”. Either it says that on the next day she was ready and the thing she was ready for was work, or she was ready for work and the work is on the next day.
Project Notes
This session took 55 minutes.
That’s all the exercise from the Fire collection. I skipped some early on because I thought they were too easy, but later I thought that they were so quick to do that I may as well drill in some more automatization that way. I picked this collection first because I had seen that quite a few of the exercises were quite easy, so give I might have forgotten some things from the past project these could be good to get back in.
Next I’ll start on the grammar tree videos.
Time table for today:
| Total time | 3:29 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| grammar tree practice | 3:29 | ||
| \_ meta | 0:24 | ||
| \_ grammar tree exercise collections | 3:05 | ||
| \\_ first attempt at exercises | 3:05 |