Traditional Grammar - Assignment 9

James Madison University

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


  1. For each of the following verbs, list and label all its forms:
    1. taste
    2. believe
    3. bring
    4. say
    5. break
  2. Diagram each of the following sentences:
    1. The last three original designs looked familiar.
    2. Our slowest runner quit the team.
    3. Make me an interesting offer.
    4. Loud music keeps Charlie's cat awake.
    5. That house's ghost seems agitated.
    6. (Give this one a try. Note that "house" is a dependent genitive modifying ghost; what is that" modifying?)




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