Modern Grammar - Assignment 12 James Madison University

Instructions: This assignment contains both some more practice with word class details, plus some practice with new material from this week. [This assignment will be marked only as an acceptable or unacceptable effort. ]

1. One of the two sentences below contains a demonstrative determiner, and the other contains a demonstrative pronoun. Which is which?
   1. I have never seen anything like that! ________________
   2. I think this flower is an orchid. ____________________
2. What is the third person singular masculine object pronoun in English? _________________
3. Re-read the textbook's discussion of prepositions and particles and your class notes on these word classes, and then attempt to underline all 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.
4. Mark each of the following examples as either a sentence (S), an incomplete sentence (I), or a run-on sentence(R) based on the constraints on subordinate conjunctions vs. discourse connectives.
   • While Harriet was sunning herself in the garden. _____
   • Nonetheless, the cat ate the mouse. _____
   • We crowded into the room when they opened the doors. _____
   • Since the water was warm, the solar panels must have been working. _____
   • Until I thought about what was happening to the world. _____
   • The fish, therefore, started to wear their goggles. _____
   • Many birds are flying north, nevertheless it is still winter. _____
5. Does the following sentence contain the locative pro-word "there" or the expletive marker "there?": The murderer was there just a minute ago! _____________________
6. Complete the following sentence two different ways, once by filling in the blank with a modal auxiliary and once by filling in the blank with a non-modal (ordinary) auxiliary (note: Only one of the ordinary auxiliaries works here, but it works in either of two different tenses):
   Lefty ____________ take dancing lessons.
   Alternative: ______________
7. Add the negator to the following sentence and make any other changes necessary to make the sentence grammatical without adding additional meaning:
   Frankenstein created a monster.
   ______________________________________________________________
   What auxiliary did you also need to add? _________
8. Do Exercise 1 on page 165 of your text and, for each noun, also state whether it has a concrete meaning (i.e., denotes physical entitites - people, places, and physical things) or an abstract meaning or both.
9. Do Exercise 4 on page 177 of your textbook. Try also to list and explain any alternations you can think of for each verb.
10. Create a sentence in the present tense that uses a transitive, dynamic verb, and then create a list of the possible variants of that sentence in active voice (i.e., no passive) by varying grammatical tenses, tne presence or absence of a modal auxiliary, and the perfect and progressive auxiliary structures. Your sentences should look similar to the active voice examples based on "Frank fries fritters" in your handout. (But feel free to skip the alliteration in your example:) ). Note that, for variants with a modal auxiliary in them, you can just choose one modal; you don't need to use each different modal as another example! Label the form of each of your sentences (for example, "past perfect").