how transparent do you feel these words are, supposing students know at least one meaning of the constituent morphemes:
fireworks; lamppost; right-hand man; half-heratedly; left-winger; birthday card; leave out; good-looking; first-class; make off with.
Describe as precisely as you can what happens (in manner and place of articulation) when saying the phrase Queen of Spades.
How many embedded sentences are there in the following sentences? if you can, analyze them by means of a tree diagram; comment on the overall complexity.
1- Alice was just beginning to think to herself, Now, what am I to do with this creature when I get home? when it grunted again, so violently, that she looked down into its face in some alarm.
2- This time there could be no mistake about it: it was neither more nor less than a pig, and she felt that it would be quite absurd for her to carry it any farther.