need a native speaker of English to write for me the test sentences for my grammaticality judgment task for the study I am conducting. This study will be conducted to test second-language learners’ knowledge of English.
INSTRUCTIONS
1. So, as these sentences will be constructed for non-native speakers of English, please pay attention to words used in these sentences. Words used in these sentences must be from the most common words in English according to the National British Corpus; you can find a list of these words in the following website: http://www.macmillandictionary.com/learn/clear-definitions.html
This is to make sure that these second language learners will understand every word used there.
2. For the same reason, please pay attention to sentence length. So, the number of word in each sentence should not be more than 10 words. The shorter the sentence is, the better it is.
3. When writing the sentences follow the examples given to you in the tables below, please pay attention to the type of the sentences – adverbial clauses only.
4. All these sentences must consist of only one sentence (either complex or compound).
5. Please avoid (do not use) phrasal-verbs – e.g. bring him up, … etc.
6. Please use different verbs when constructing the sentences. BUT please DO NOT use AUXILARY VERBS (be: am is, are, may, might, should, ….) with the EMBEDED CLAUSES, e.g. Mary could not come because she was tired.
7. Please use simple tenses, either PRESENT or PAST SIMPLE TENSE. Again please do not focus only on one tense but write half of the sentences in the present and the others in the past.
8. Within the embedded clauses, Use all types of personal pronouns: first, second and third person pronouns (I, we, you, he, she, it, they) to refer to the main subject/object in a given sentence, BUT focus mainly on the third Person Pronoun (he, she, it, they)
9. With the embedded subject use both animate and inanimate reference.
I want you to write for me only sentences with adverbial clauses; see the followingtable for details:
Adverbial Clauses of Time
Subordinate conjunction beginning the clause: Sentences Notes
When
Whenever
Before
While
Until 1. I can see you when I finish my work.
2. The carstopped before it hit the child.
? (Note the embedded subjects (I, it) refers to the same subjects of the matrix (main) clauses I, the car).
3. She had just fixed her bicycle when it broke again.
4. We must visit Jane before she leaves the hospital.
? (the embedded subject it refers to the object bicycle of the main clause)
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