Modern Grammar - ASSIGNMENT 17 James Madison University

Instructions: This assignment will be marked as an acceptable or unacceptable effort.

1. Diagram each of the following sentences:
   
   1. We heard the university is cancelling all exams for the rest of the semester.
   3. The frog asked whether the young girl would kiss him.
   4. Honestly, they might have preferred for the media to ignore their activities.
   5. For a fish to have a pet would be wierd.
   6. She is afraid that her feet are growing larger.
   7. The singer must face the fact that he will not hit that high note.
   8. That the squeaky wheel will get the grease is well-known.
   9. The librarian had a secret fear that his brain might be getting full.
   10. Living in a tree would not be fun.
   11. After we left, someone turned off the lights.
   12. The apple fell to the ground without making a sound when the winds started blowing.
   13. Many customers informed the chef that the food was bland and overcooked.
2. One of the following sentences is an extraposition (E), one has an extrposition as part of it (EI), one is an ordinary sentence with a meaningful "it" pronoun (O), and one has a "filler-it" like the extraposition but is a different type of transformed sentence that we have not yet named (X). Label which one is which and write a sentence explaining how you know:
   1. My doctor says that it is essential that we eat our vegetables. _________
   2. It was beauty that killed the beast. _________
   3. It fell to the ground without making a sound. _________
   4. It is well-known that the squeaky wheel will get the grease. _________
3. In each of the following sentences, there is an embedded sentence modifying a noun. In which sentences are those clauses noun complements (NC), and in which are they relative clauses (RC)?
   1. His certainty that we would be late was getting tiresome.________
   2. The boys whom the girls were watching flexed their muscles._________
   3. Those flowers are a blooming in that garden that they cultivated very carefully._________
   4. The manager rejected the possibility that his assistant was the real brains of the operations._______
   5. The king, whom the people did not trust, raised the taxes again.________
   6. The meeting that was scheduled seemed unnecessary.________
   7. That music argument filled us with an awareness that life can be beautiful.________