Traditional Grammar - Assignment 7 James Madison University

[This assignment will be marked only as an acceptable or unacceptable effort.]

1. Find any paragraph of four or more sentences and replace all the noun phrases with pronouns. How is the readability of the paragraph affected by this change?
2. Using the information in brackets as a guideline, fill in the appropriate pronoun or determiner in each blank below. Put a (P) next to the word you use if it is a pronoun, and a (D) if it is a determiner.
   
   1. ____________[indefinite] good joke always cheers ____________[1st person, singular] up.
   2. ____________[interrogative, human] first told ____________[2nd person] about ____________[definite] chicken crossing the road?
   3. ____________[demonstrative] is NOT a joke ____________[relative] ____________[indefinite] likes.
   4. Does the chicken really risk ____________[possessive] life just to get on the other side?
   5. ____________[first person, plural] must stop subjecting ____________[reciprocal] to chicken jokes.
   6. Let the chickens fend for ______________[reflexive]!
3. Write a sentence containing a noun phrase that has a pre-determiner, a central determiner, and a post-determiner in it. ______________________________________________________________________