"Our friends won't buy this analysis, let alone the next one we propose."

1 (acceptable)

"One more pseudo generalization and I'm giving up."

1 (acceptable)

"One more pseudo generalization or I'm giving up."

1 (acceptable)

"The more we study verbs, the crazier they get."

1 (acceptable)

"Day by day the facts are getting murkier."

1 (acceptable)

"I'll fix you a drink."

1 (acceptable)

"Fred watered the plants flat."

1 (acceptable)

"Bill coughed his way out of the restaurant."

1 (acceptable)

"We're dancing the night away."

1 (acceptable)

"Herman hammered the metal flat."

1 (acceptable)

"The critics laughed the play off the stage."

1 (acceptable)

"The pond froze solid."

1 (acceptable)

"Bill rolled out of the room."

1 (acceptable)

"The gardener watered the flowers flat."

1 (acceptable)

"The gardener watered the flowers."

1 (acceptable)

"Bill broke the bathtub into pieces."

1 (acceptable)

"Bill broke the bathtub."

1 (acceptable)

"They drank the pub dry."

1 (acceptable)

"They drank the pub."

0 (unacceptable)

"The professor talked us into a stupor."

1 (acceptable)

"The professor talked us."

0 (unacceptable)

"We yelled ourselves hoarse."

1 (acceptable)

"We yelled ourselves."

0 (unacceptable)

"We yelled Harry hoarse."

0 (unacceptable)

"Harry coughed himself into a fit."

1 (acceptable)

"Harry coughed himself."

0 (unacceptable)

"Harry coughed us into a fit."

0 (unacceptable)

"Bill followed the road into the forest."

1 (acceptable)

"We drove Highway 5 from SD to SF."

1 (acceptable)

"Fred tracked the leak to its source."

1 (acceptable)

"John danced waltzes across the room."

1 (acceptable)

"Bill urinated out the window."

1 (acceptable)

"Bill coughed out the window."

1 (acceptable)

"Bill bled on the floor."

1 (acceptable)

"The toilet leaked through the floor into the kitchen below."

1 (acceptable)

"Bill ate off the floor."

1 (acceptable)

"Bill drank from the hose."

1 (acceptable)

"This metal hammers flat easily."

1 (acceptable)

"They made him president."

1 (acceptable)

"They made him angry."

1 (acceptable)

"They caused him to become angry by making him."

0 (unacceptable)

"They caused him to become president by making him."

0 (unacceptable)

"They made him to exhaustion."

0 (unacceptable)

"They made him into a monster."

1 (acceptable)

"The trolley rumbled through the tunnel."

1 (acceptable)

"The wagon rumbled down the road."

1 (acceptable)

"The bullets whistled past the house."

1 (acceptable)

"The knee replacement candidate groaned up the stairs."

1 (acceptable)

"The car honked down the road."

0 (unacceptable)

"The dog barked out of the room."

0 (unacceptable)

"The dog barked its way out of the room."

1 (acceptable)

"Bill whistled his way past the house."

1 (acceptable)

"The witch vanished into the forest."

1 (acceptable)

"Bill disappeared down the road."

1 (acceptable)

"The witch went into the forest by vanishing."

0 (unacceptable)

"The witch went into the forest and thereby vanished."

1 (acceptable)

"The building is tall and wide."

1 (acceptable)

"The building is tall and tall."

0 (unacceptable)

"This building is taller and wider than that one."

1 (acceptable)

"This building got taller and wider than that one."

1 (acceptable)

"This building got taller and taller."

1 (acceptable)

"This building is taller and taller."

0 (unacceptable)

"This building got than that one."

0 (unacceptable)

"This building is than that one."

0 (unacceptable)

"Bill floated into the cave."

1 (acceptable)

"Bill floated into the cave for hours."

0 (unacceptable)

"Bill pushed Harry off the sofa for hours."

0 (unacceptable)

"Bill floated down the river for hours."

1 (acceptable)

"Bill floated down the river."

1 (acceptable)

"Bill pushed Harry along the trail for hours."

1 (acceptable)

"Bill pushed Harry along the trail."

1 (acceptable)

"The road zigzagged down the hill."

1 (acceptable)

"The rope stretched over the pulley."

1 (acceptable)

"The weights stretched the rope over the pulley."

1 (acceptable)

"The weights kept the rope stretched over the pulley."

1 (acceptable)

"Sam cut himself free."

1 (acceptable)

"Sam got free by cutting his finger."

1 (acceptable)

"Bill cried himself to sleep."

1 (acceptable)

"Bill cried Sue to sleep."

0 (unacceptable)

"Bill squeezed himself through the hole."

1 (acceptable)

"Bill sang himself to sleep."

1 (acceptable)

"Bill squeezed the puppet through the hole."

1 (acceptable)

"Bill sang Sue to sleep."

1 (acceptable)

"The elevator rumbled itself to the ground."

0 (unacceptable)

"If the telephone rang, it could ring itself silly."

1 (acceptable)

"She yelled hoarse."

0 (unacceptable)

"Ted cried to sleep."

0 (unacceptable)

"The tiger bled to death."

1 (acceptable)

"He coughed awake and we were all overjoyed, especially Sierra."

1 (acceptable)

"John coughed awake, rubbing his nose and cursing under his breath."

1 (acceptable)

"John coughed himself awake on the bank of the lake where he and Bill had their play."

1 (acceptable)

"Ron yawned himself awake."

1 (acceptable)

"She coughed herself awake as the leaf landed on her nose."

1 (acceptable)

"The worm wriggled onto the carpet."

1 (acceptable)

"The chocolate melted onto the carpet."

1 (acceptable)

"The ball wriggled itself loose."

0 (unacceptable)

"Bill wriggled himself loose."

1 (acceptable)

"Aliza wriggled her tooth loose."

1 (acceptable)

"The off center spinning flywheel shook itself loose."

1 (acceptable)

"The more you eat, the less you want."

1 (acceptable)