This questionnaire is designed to obtain adults' judgements about the acceptability of certain sentences. These judgements will help me to analyse the results of my research on children's language.

The items are based on a task in which the child is shown two pictures and these pictures are described to him. Then, he is asked to complete a sentence based on the pictures. For each item, please begin by reading the descriptions of the pictures (see page 10). Then, read the corresponding set of sentences below. Your task is to rank the sentences for acceptability by placing a ‘1’ beside the sentence which ‘sounds best’; a ‘2’ beside the sentence which ‘sounds the next best’; and so on. If you think that two or more sentences are equally acceptable, then give them equal ranks by using an ‘=’ sign (e.g. ‘2 =’). Please rank all the sentences in the set. If you think that any sentence is totally unacceptable, then place an asterisk beside it (as well as giving it a rank). Try not to spend too long thinking about any item. Please finish ranking each set of sentences before proceeding to the next set.