Modern Grammar - Assignment 8

James Madison University

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

  1. Which of the following can be a noun? Give as many reasons why/why not for each as you can think of:
    1. margarine
    2. fantasy
    3. sure
    4. action
    5. driving
    6. finesse
    7. flashy
    8. under
    9. allow
    10. devastation
    11. craftiness
    12. greed
  2. Re-read our textbook's discussions of verbs in Chapter 4. Which of the following can be a verb? Give as many reasons why/why not for each as you can think of:
    1. marinate
    2. fantastic
    3. sure
    4. event
    5. driving
    6. panic
    7. cleanse
    8. glove
    9. understand
    10. after
  3. Even more practice with nouns and verbs: Do exercise 1 on pp. 115-116 of our text)

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