Traditional Grammar - Practice Sentences for Test #2 James Madison University

Instructions: [This is NOT an assignment. These are optional practice sentences for diagramming and recognizing verb phrase forms. Partial answers will be available to check yourself against.]

• Diagram each of the following sentences (Remember that you can use Emery Lesson Eight for guidelines on the diagramming with conjunctsion other than the conjunctions of whole clauses. :) ):
  1. That old, abandoned mansion must be haunted or cursed.
  2. Mischievous children will never be given any candy!
  3. The Great Pumpkin has stood up Lucy's loyal little brother again.
  4. Honestly, a skeleton and a mummy are walking in right now!
  5. That creepy mask has been making both the adults and the little children very nervous.
  6. Would you have preferred the chocolate or did you like the popcorn ball?
  7. The kindly witch had been offering the tired goblins and ghouls her oldest but quite servicable flying broom.
  8. Everyone and his brother must surely consider Halloween a very sociable and wildly amusing holiday.
  9. Slowly and ponderously, the hungry zombie crept closer and closer.
  10. You can neither use the wizard's magic potions nor borrow his favorite wand.