[meme] nearest book, p. 123

[trochee]

[from constructingme:]

1. Grab the nearest book. Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

C. Assume that motion verbs like jump, move, etc. take an optional PP complement, that is, that these verbs have the following specification in their lexical entries:

[COMPS < (PP) >]

Given that, use the following examples to write the leical entriesfor the prepositions out, from, and of:

1. Kim jumped out of the bushes.
2. Bo jumped out from the bushes.
3. Lee moved from under the bushes.
4. Leslie jumped out from under the bushes.
5. Dana jumped from the bushes.
6. Chris ran out the door.
7. *Kim jumped out of from the bushes.
8. Kim jumped out.
9. *Kim jumped from.

okay, it's difficult to say where the end of the sentence is here. So I kinda went on.

Comments

[cat-whisperer.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I have any "cool" books! :p

[soliss.livejournal.com]

*laugh* Best answer ever.

[exterra.livejournal.com]

i tried to do this exercise but you left your Syntactic Theory book too close to me!

[isolt.livejournal.com]

I need to never read LJ when tired.

Since your sentence 5 is imperative, for rather a bit I assumed it was the instructions referenced by #4. I thought, "wow, what a geeky meme!" Then I realized that, no, the nearest book to you was some kind of syntax text.

Whoops.

for me...

[http://users.livejournal.com/_dkg_/]

i know the meme is to post it in yer own journal, but i never post to my journal, so i'll put it here, cuz i kinda dig what i got. i hope that's ok. depending on how you count sentences, it's either:

You'll find out.

or

It's going to contaminate us all, starting inside and working to the surface — it's utter derangement.

thanks...

[http://users.livejournal.com/merle_/]

Thanks a lot (http://www.livejournal.com/users/merle_/7735.html).

Were I at work, I would have had books on my desk. But at home, my desk space is limited to folders, papers, sticky notes, manuals, media, quarters, business cards, and miscellaneous hardware.