Adverbials- Last Review

Which of the following sentences includes a cleft structure?

• It snowed heavily all night.

• It was all night that it snowed heavily.

• Heavily it snowed, it was.

• The night snowed heavily.

What type of grammatical feature is shown in this sentence: "We couldn't climb the hill - too icy."?

• Ellipsis

• Extraposition

• Premodification

• Cleft sentence

In "It was so good to get home," the word *so* is an example of:

• Intensifier

• Elliptical marker

• Premodifier

• End focus

Which of the following is an example of a focusing subjunct?

• Obviously

• Only

• Sadly

• Then

"We could only see the snow fall" - what does *only* focus on?

• The time it snowed

• The action of seeing

• The object (the snow)

• The manner

What is the function of "Moreover" in a sentence?

• Intensifier

• Emphasizer

• Additive conjunct

• Disjunct

"Apparently, the storm lasted all night." What type of adverbial is *apparently*?

• Conjunct

• Disjunct

• Modifier

• Subjunct

Which of these sentences shows the adverbial in M2 position? (More than one answer is correct)

• They had barely eaten.

• They had never been treated like that.

• She is really an intelligent child.

• Never had I seen such a terrible scene.

How would you paraphrase this sentence?: "We could not climb the hill outside our village to some extent."

• We could not climb it.

• We climbed it completely.

"Children could not remember their first experiences a little." - The phrase "a little" functions as:

• Emphasizer

• Minimizer

• Downtoner

• Booster