Traditional Grammar - Assignment 19 James Madison University

Instructions: [This is an OPTIONAL, GRADED or UNGRADED assignment.] Specificially, you have these choices:
(1) Do not turn in this assignment, and have your overall grade for graded assignments be an average of the previous two graded assignments (You can still use the sentences for practice, of course; answers will be handed out); OR
(2) Choose just TEN sentences from this list of 25 that you think you have diagrammed the most perfectly and turn them in at or before the start of class time on Wednesday, 12/2 as a graded assignment.(Your total graded assignment average will then be based on all three assignments.) One extra sentence may be chosen for a possible five bonus points, but you must indicate which is the bonus sentence.
IMPORTANT: If you choose to do the assignment, you may use your texts and your notes, but you MUST work alone. Each sentence is worth 10 points, and there will be partial credit only if the errors are quite minor. In other words, I will be looking for careful, comfident diagramming, and sentences with major problems will therefore not get credit. The bonus sentence must contain no errors to get credit.

1. Send me a postcard soon!
2. In which laboratory did the evil scientist hide the antidote formulated by his assistant?
3. It worried the doctor that she had never noticed the enormous wart on the tip of her patient's nose.
4. We could toss you a rope and pull you to the boat.
5. The gamblers lost all of their money.
6. The director had been asked by the censors to remove several scenes.
7. Your friend's ancestors' lands were quite extensive.
8. That crack in the wall is getting worse and worse.
9. Has there always been a moon?
10. Breaking into the locked room, the losing candidate started changing the ballots.
11. A good stew has to simmer gently for many hours.
12. Bobby's desperate plan, to hide the broken vase under the sofa, didn't seem likely to work.
13. The knight never knew that a dragon could breathe smoke and fire.
14. To make my point clearly, the company is now nearly bankrupt but is promoting its new product agressively.
15. Neither you nor I can benefit from this ridiculous fight about nothing.
16. These shoes fit, but I think I will buy the other ones.
17. Everybody give treats to our neighbor's fat dog, Buddy.
18. It is illogical for you to air-condition your house in the winter.
19. The water being very cold, everyone just stayed on the beach.
20. Because Doolittle spoke numerous languages and cared about animals, they loved him very much.
21. The apology that they finally offered did make the situation less tense.
22. What great stories you tell!
23. I wonder if they will begin to become aware that we are watching them.
24. Astonishingly, the magician has floated over our heads, down the aisle, and out the door.
25. For this policy to work would require the president's speaking softly but carrying a very big stick.