Modern Grammar - Final Extra Credit Option
James Madison University
INSTRUCTIONS: Below are the details of an opportunity to earn up to FIVE points extra credit on the final exam, due no later than the regular time period scheduled for our final exam.
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY: Below is a list of grammatical constructions/constituent patterns in English. In your reading between now and the final exam, see if you can find examples for up to FIVE of these particular grammatical details. You may submit a maximum of five sentences, each for a different member of the list. Submit full sentences even when an example is only part of a sentence, and label each sentence with the list number that you believe applies. Include a citation of the source with at least the title, author, and page number or web address). (Example -- (20) "There were no other fish in the lake except for perch and a few worthless carp." The Things They Carried , Tim O'Brien, page 143) Of course, you may NOT use examples from grammar texts or other sources that actually identify the construction. :) Also note that if you submit more than the limit, I'll use the first ones. So, just choose the ones about which you are most confident!
A sentence...
containing a past, perfect passive auxiliary structure.
containing a modal, progressive auxiliary structure.
containing at least two prepositional phrases.
containing at least two quantifiers.
containing a discourse connective.
containing a word with at least three morphemes in it.
containing at least two possessive determiners.
containing the word "that" used at some point as a complementizer and also used elsewhere as a pronoun or as a determiner.
containing a verb-particle construction (two-word verb).
containing an NP used as a determiner
containing a linking verb (USED AS a linking verb).
containing a sentential subject.
containing a sentential direct object (S or S-bar).
containing a noun complement.
containing an adjective complement.
containing a coordinate conjunction of two whole clauses.
containing at least THREE total clauses.
containing a gerund noun phrase as the subject of a sentence.
containing a gerund noun phrase as a direct object.
transformed into an existential-there sentence.
that has undergone the preposing transformation.
that has undergone the sentence inversion transformation.
containing a filler-it (either relevant transformation type is okay).
containing an appositive.
containing a relative clause modifying a proper noun.
that is structurally ambiguous. (Explain the ambiguity.)
