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Subject: Re: Instructions for the Morphology Online Seminar

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Ana Carolina Ferreira

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Date Posted: 18:25:45 10/02/09 Fri
In reply to: Ana Paula Rezende 's message, "Re: Instructions for the Morphology Online Seminar" on 19:48:12 10/01/09 Thu

I'm awfully sorry because I coudn't understand very well what we were supposed to do and I had a lot of doubts...I wasn't in class last friday,so I am feeling totaly lost.Here is what I could do...

SHE [p: 3rd] [- plural] sat [sit] [p: 3rd] [- present] at the window watching [watch] [ progressive] the evening invade [ - past] the avenue. Her [ she] [ p: 3rd] [- plural] [ possessive] head was [be] [p: 1st,3rd] [-plural][- present] leaned [lean] [-past] against the window curtains [curtain] [+ plural]and in her[ she] [ p: 3rd] [- plural] [ possessive] nostrils [nostril] [+ plural] was [be] [p: 1st,3rd] [-plural][- present] the odour of dusty [dust] [adj.]cretonne. She [p: 3rd] [- plural] was be] [p: 1st, 3rd] [-plural][- present] tired.
Few people passed [pass] [- present]. The man [- plural]out of the last house passed [pass] [- present]on his way home; she[p: 3rd] [- plural] heard [hear][-present] his [he] [+ possessive] footsteps [foot] [step] [+ plural] clacking [clack] [ progressive] along the concrete pavement and afterwards crunching [crunch] [progressive] on the cinder path before the new red houses [house] [ + plural]. One time there used [use] [- present] to be [be] [- finite] a field there in which they[p:3rd] [+ plural] used [use] [-present]to play [play] [ - finite] every evening with other people's [ possessive] children. Then a man [-plural] from Belfast bought [buy] [- present]the field and built [ build] [- present] houses [house][ plural] in it [ p:3rd] [- plural] not like their [ p: 3rd] [ + plural] little brown houses [house] [ + plural] but bright brick houses [house] [ + plural] with shining [shine] [+ progressive] roofs[roof] [+ plural]. The children of the avenue used [use] [- present] to play [play] [- finite] together in that field -- the Devines, the Waters, the Dunns, little Keogh the cripple, she [p: 3rd] [- plural] and her [ she] [ p: 3rd] [- plural] [ possessive] brothers [brother] [+ plural]and sisters[sister] [+ plural]. Ernest, however, never played [play] [- present] he was [be] [+past] [+ plural] [-past] too grown [grow] [ p. p.] up. Her [she] [ p: 3rd] [- plural] [ possessive] father used [use] [- present] often to hunt [hunt] [- finite] them in out of the field with his blackthorn [black] [thorn] stick; but usually little Keogh used [use] [- present] to keep[keep] [- finite] nix and call out when he saw[see] [- present] her father coming[come] [progressive]. Still they seemed [seem] [- present] to have [have] [- finite] been [be] [- p. p.] rather happy then. Her father was [be] [ - present] not so bad then; and besides, her [ she] [ p: 3rd] [- plural] [ possessive] mother was alive. That was a long time ago; she and her [ she] [ p: 3rd] [- plural] [ possessive] brothers [brother] [+ plural]and sisters[sister] [+ plural] were [ be] [+past] [ + plural] [-past] all grown [grow] [ p.p.] up her mother was dead [die] [+ p.p.]. Tizzie Dunn was dead[die] [+ p.p.], too, and the Waters had[have] [- past] gone [go] [+ p.p.] back to England. Everything [every] [thing] changes [change] [–s, p: 3rd]. Now she [p: 3rd] [- plural] was going to go away like the others, to leave her home.
Home! She [p: 3rd] [- plural] looked[look] [ - present] round the room, reviewing [review] [ progressive] all its[p:3rd] [ possessive] familiar [family] [adjective] objects which she [p: 3rd] [- plural] had[have] [- past] dusted once a week for so many years[ year] [+ plural], wondering [ wonder] [ progressive] where on earth all the dust came [come] [-past] from. Perhaps she [p: 3rd] [- plural] would [modal] never see again those familiar [family] [adjective] objects[object] [plural] from which she[p: 3rd] [- plural] had never dreamed [dream] [- present]of being divided [divide] [- present]. And yet during all those years [year] [+ plural]she[p: 3rd] [- plural] had[have] [- past] never found [find] [– present] out the name of the priest whose yellowing photograph hung on the wall above the broken [break] [+ p. p.] harmonium beside the colored [color] [adj.] print of the promises [promise] [ + plural] made [make] [ - past] to Blessed [bless] [ - past] Margaret Mary Alacoque. He had[have] [- past] been [be] [ + p. p.] a school friend of her father. Whenever he showed [show] [- past] the photograph to a visitor [ visit] [ agent] her father used to pass [pass] [ - finite] it with a casual word:

"He is [be] [p: 3rd sing.] [ - plural] [- past] in Melbourne now."
She had consented [- present]to go [- finite] away, to leave [- finite] her home. Was that wise? She tried [try] [ - present] to weigh [ - finite] each side of the question.

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The analysis of Ana Paula´s text	Ana Carolina Ferreira	18:28:21 10/02/09 Fri