Practical Grammar 11

Determiner Phrases with possessives

Exercise

In this exercise, you are supposed to add to the grammar (if necessary) the lexical entries and rules to license the following strings:

(1) the car
(2) my car
(3) my new car
(4) my shiny new car
(5) *Ingrid car
(6) Ingrid s car
(7) I like my shiny new car
(8) I like Ingrid s shiny new car
(9) I like my brother s shiny new car
(10) I like Ingrid s brother s shiny new car

Your grammar should output the following representations:

(2) the car

(3) my car

(4) Ingrid s