Hi everybody,

I reduced the content of my original survey, since the workload was too heavy.

I hope you can help me now.

Engdeu

Universität Hamburg

Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik

Seminar II: Cognitive English Grammar: Theory and Practice





Survey



I. These sentences were taken from British and US daily newspapers.

Please fill in the blanks with the tenses you think make sense.



1.

BAT boss Adams (1) (to stub out) cigarettes ahead of exit

THE boss of Britain’s biggest tobacco firm (2) (to give up) smoking cigarettes,

it (3) (to emerge). / Paul Adams, chief executive of British American Tobacco,

(4) (to kick) the habit after spending 19 years selling millions of packets of Dunhill, Kent and Lucky Strike to smokers.[…]



2.

City (1) (to pass) law barring translation

A Minnesota community (2) (to pass) an ordinance that bars the use of city funds for translation of public documents or meetings, the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune (3) (to report) (startribune.com).[…]



3.

France (1) (to declare) war on al-Qaeda

France (2) (to declare) war on al-Qaeda after the terror network’s North African branch (3) (to kill) a French aid worker it (4) (to take) hostage in April.[…]