Traditional Grammar - Assignment 2 James Madison University

Instructions: Follow all directions. [This assignment will be marked only as an acceptable or unacceptable effort.]

1. Create one new example of each of the types of sentences listed below.
   1. a simple, positive, active, declarative sentence
   2. a simple, negative, active, interrogative sentence
   3. a "multiple" sentence
   4. an exclamative sentence
   5. an imperative sentence
   6. a sentence that starts with an expletive "there"
   7. a declarative sentence that acts as a question

2. Make up a relatively uncomplicated sentence in English that is at least six words long. Then write the following three variations:
   
   1. a paraphrase of your sentence that does not remove any of the words used in the original and adds more words only if they are needed for grammatical reasons
   2. a paraphrase that is still descriptively grammatical but is Non-Standard English (i.e, that is prescriptively unacceptable/non-standard)
   3. a re-arrangement of the words in the original sentence that results in a descriptively ungrammatical string of words.

   
   

   
   

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