Modern Grammar - Assignment 9 James Madison University

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

1. Do exercise 6 on page 130 in your text.
2. Label the word class of each of the words in the following sentence:
   Undoubtedly, very expensive taste creates serious financial woes.
3. On page 142, do exercise 9A (just examples 2, 3,5, 9, and 10) with the following slight change in the instructions: for each example label the italicized word, based on its use in that sentence, as a gerund, an adjective, or a verb.
4. Re-write the following two sentences as one sentence making use of any appropriate subordinate conjunction. Underline the subordinate conjunction.
   The lion spared the mouse's life. The mouse helped the lion escape.
5. The following example contains either a subordinate conjunction or a discourse connective. Underline the relevant word and state which it is:
   I certainly will try to cook us something for dinner; however, I make no promises about the results.
   
6. Would you classify the coordinate conjunction "or" as inclusive or exclusive in the following sentence (explain your choice):
   Is that banana ripe or is it unripe?
7. Give an example of a sentence that uses the word "after" as a subordinate conjunction.
8. It is not uncommon for us to use more than one coordinate conjunction in a sentence. Write a sentence that uses two coordinate conjunctions, one to make a conjunction of two nouns and one to make a conjunction of two verbs.
9. Two of the following six examples contain a coodinate conjunction connecting two sentences. Two others each contain a subordinate conjunction turning one sentence into a "subordinate clause" that modifies another in an adverbial way. Identify each of these four sentences and identify the conjunction in each as well. Then look at the last two examples. Each contains a complementizer signaling that a sentence is being used as a "complementized clause" inside a bigger sentence. Find the "complementized clause" inside each bigger sentence and identitify the two words that are complementizers in these examples. Try to describe what is different about the special role that a complementized clause plays from the role signals for each these smaller sentences that differs from what a conjunction of either kind would. :
   
   1. Clowns can be fun, but they can also be creepy.
   2. The little boy knows that a circus is coming to town.
   3. He wants to go because he saw a circus show on television.
   4. His parents wonder whether they should take him to see the acrobats.
   5. He might like the circus animals too, but the clowns will be a problem.
   6. If they get close to their son, they will certainly scare him.

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