Basic English Syntax with Exercises

Exercise 6

Identify the different types of movement in the following sentences. What moves from which position to which position that is what is the extraction site and what is the landing site for the moved elements?

(1)aThe diamonds were stolen yesterday.
bWill you meet Mary in Paris?
cLinguistic textbooks, I never read.
dI won’t trust you.
eWho does John like?
fNever have I been treated so rudely.

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