Modern Grammar - Assignment 11 James Madison University

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

1. One of the two sentences below contains the demonstrative determiner "that",one contains the pronoun "that," one contains the relative pronoun "that," and one contains the complementizer "that."Which is which?
   1. I have never seen anything like that! ________________________________________
   2. That the waves were big excited the surfers.___________________________________
   3. I think that flower is an orchid. ____________________________________________
   4. I saw a cloud that was shaped like a jack-o-lantern. _________________________
2. What is the third person singular masculine object pronoun in English? _________________
3. What is the antecedent of the pronoun "her" in the following sentence?
   My friend moved from Virginia to New York, but I still keep in touch with her. ________________
4. The following sentence contains "who" twice. Label in the provided parentheses the type of pronoun "who" is in each case:
   Who ( _______________ ) helped the leprechaun who (___________________) stole my pot of gold?
5. Re-read the textbook's discussion of prepositions and particles and your class notes and handout on these word classes, and then attempt to underline all and only the prepositions (and not any particles) in the following sentence:
   The bearded lady from the local circus down the road looked at her diary and blotted out the name of the man who had turned her marriage proposal down.
6. The sentence "Rudy looked up the street" and the sentence "Rudy looked up the information," with their most obvious respective meanings, actually have different verbs. Which one has the two-word verb meaning?
7. After reading the discussion of count and mass nouns in Chapter 5, attempt Exercise 1 on page 165 of your text.