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EXCEPTIONS TO THE LAST LEXICAL ITEM RULE 1. Event sentences The `water’s running 2. Nouns + Infinitives I’ve got a couple of `letters to write 3. Wh-questions ending with a verb How much `sugar do you add? Whose `advise did you follow? What `brand do you buy? 4. Final relative clauses What about that `story you were telling me? This is the `doctor I was telling you about. 5. Nouns+adjectives/participles He left the `door open. Keep your `eyes shut. How often do you have your `house painted? 6. Transitive verbs + object + verbal particle Keep your `head down. Don’t forget to put your `clock back. 7. Indirect questions You can’t imagine how much `effort Mark put into it. 8. Subject + passive verb `Classes have been cancelled! The missing `link has been found. 9. Objects of general reference – Nouns of wide denotation

place, thing, person, colour, time, boy, girl, street. I must ex`plain matters. Let’s go to `my place. Vs. Let’s go round to my `office. 10. Final vocatives Your `taxi’s waiting, love. Good `morning, doctor. 11. Final reporting clauses I don’t want to go `out, he said. 12. Final adverbials 12.a. Adverbials of time and place Autumn seems to be arriving `early this year. There’s a `fly in my soup.

12.b. Adverbials of courtesy (please & thanks), degree (down-toners or intensifiers) and proper functioning I’ve really had e`nough thank you. I’m just going `out for a bit. (down-toners: reject nucleus) She lost her head com`pletely. (intensifier: attract nucleus) (also informal intensifiers: this or that. “It wasn’t `that bad.) She can’t `hear properly. Do you think it’ll `work O.K. 12.c. Sentence adverbials (disjuncts, like naturally, fortunately, basically; & conjuncts, like though, for instance, rather) Prices went `up, unfortunately (or with another IP and a rise on unfortunately). It’s a questions of e`quality, basically. (idem) All of our friends are going to the `Lake District. We are going to the `seaside, though (or separate IP and rise) RP is not a dialect, but an `accent, rather. (! same IP) 12.d. Sentence vs. non-sentence adverbials I went `home, happily. (disjunct) I went home `happily (manner adjunct) 13. Other patterns in broad and narrow focus 13.a. Fossilized expressions to keep one’s `fingers crossed 13.b. Any- in negative statements I don’t think I’m for`getting anything. BUT I’m not forgetting `anything. 13.c. Reflexive (unaccented) vs. emphatic pronouns (accented) He won’t worry unless you `hurt yourself. I have to see it for my`self.