Answer all the questions.
Question 1) Write a brief note on clause elements and types.
Question 2) Explain “emphasis” with three examples.
Question 3) What is the intransitive verb according to Roland Barthes?
Question 4) Analyse the following:
a) Did you ever eat chicken?
b) Sure, I guess I’ve eaten chicken six of seven times.
c) What are you going to do when you grow up?
Question 5) Make sentences using following idiomatic phrases as a noun phrase.
a) A gala day
b) Fair play
c) Iron will
Question 6) Widdowson, in his essay “Stylistic”, presents several approaches to stylistics. In what way is his approach different from similar to holiday’s and Samuel Levin’s approaches?
Question 7) Write an essay on the following:
a) Theme and Inversion
b) Devices of Emphasis
c) Contrastive Focus
Question 8) Describe Ranald Barthes’ view of “An Intransitive Verb”. Justify the relationship between writer and language.