Analysing grammer structures

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What would be the FORM, FUNCTION and PHONOLOGICAL ASPECT of these items

1. She used to have long hair.
2. I was having a bath when the phone rang.
3 I wish I had worked harder.

I would appreciate any help..
Thanks
Joel

Guest · Accepted Answer

Hey Joel,

I think i'm doing the same course as you... and i cant do it either... have you recieved any help or answers.

Cheers,

Jane

Mister Micawber · Answer

Sounds a lot like homework to me, Joel.

CalifJim · Answer

Can you give us the definitions of those three terms as they are used in your course? And also an idea of the sorts of answers that are expected, for example, by giving us a multiple choice question to give us the general idea?

The FORM of "She used to have long hair." is

A. ....
B. ....
C. ....

And so on. It's so vague, one wants to say, "Well, I think the first sentence is in the form of a pear, the second in the form of a cow, the third in the shape of a jelly-fish!"

LeeInEngland · Answer

We must all be doing the same course (i-to-i).

"she used to have long hair".

Here is what I wrote for the above:-

For the form:
used to + have + adjective + object

For the function:
She doesn't have long hair anymore.
She doesn't have long hair now.

For the Phonological aspects,:
'used' and 'to' are often connected together when speaking to form the sound 'yoo-s-to'.

I may be completely wrong about how this. I will be contacting my tutor.

It does say in the module list, that the mini task is not submited to the tutor.

All the best,

Lee.

CalifJim · Answer

Thank goodness someone came along who knows what this is all about!

I guess you'll be pointing out the "t" sound at the end of "worked" for a phonological aspect of the last sentence.

Arabella · Answer

Hello
I'm doing the same course and i'm also having problems i was wondering if you could help me,i don't know were to get imformation.THank you.

Be_cool_76 · Answer

hello could you send me the answers to please for this

Guest · Answer

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Anonymous · Answer

Wow....im doing the same course and having the exact same problem here! Has anyone figured it out and got the correct answer?!

A lot more testing than i first thought!!

Niamh

Anonymous · Answer

This is what I am submitting

She used to have long hair.

Form

Used + infinitive

I used to eat meat.

We used to date.

Function

To state a habit or state in the past that is now completed or different from the present situation

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The sentence above functions to allow the speaker to inform that, before (in the past), she had long hair but not now.

Phonology

The pronunciation of used to is blended into /justu/: the d of ‘used’ and the t of ‘to’ blend in together. Next the h of ‘have’ blends into ‘used to’- /justehav/. The o sound becomes a schwa sound.

I was having a bath when the phone rang.

Form

past progressive + object + time word + simple past

I was eating lunch when the dog barked.

I was writing my homework when the computer died.

Function

When past progressive and simple past are used in the same sentence, the past progressive verb indicates the longer (main) action. The simple past verb describes a shorter action or interrupting action that occurred in the middle of the longer action.

Phonology

‘I was having’ usually shortens to ‘I’s avin’- ‘was’ is contracted and ‘having’ becomes shortened with the diagraph ‘ng’ becoming ‘n’.

I wish I had worked harder.

Form

Wish + past simple verb

I wish I bought insurance.

I wish I studied Spanish.

Function

When ‘wish’ is presented this way it is used to indicate a wish about the past, a desire for a past action to have occurred.

Phonology

‘I wish I had’ becomes ‘I wish I’d’. The ‘had’ usually is contracted after the subject.

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