Modern Grammar - ASSIGNMENT 20 James Madison University

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

1. Diagram each of the following sentences:
   
   1. That egg will break if you drop it.
   2. That cookies smell delicious is a well-known fact.
   3. Whenever their parents take them to the carnival, Sally and her little brother like riding the merry-go-round
   4. To Debbie's surprise, Ben confessed that he loved her.
   5. "Gramophobia" is the fear that studying grammar is deadly.
   6. Heather is very worried that her phone's battery has died.
   7. After a careful search of our family records, we found out the truth about some of our crazy relatives.
   8. You should find out whether that position in the marketing department offers opportunities for advancement.
   9. After I fell off the bicycle everyone asked me if I was okay.
   10. Their changing the subject suggested that they were somewhat embarrassed.
   11. You know that I know that you wish that this sentence did not require recursion.
   12. You can tell this sentence lacks a complementizer.

Challenge questions:

1. Rearrange the words in this sentence to make a new sentence with the exact same meaning:
   "The good part comes next."
2. What one word can be removed from the following sentence and replaced with the S-Bar at the end of the sentence to make a new sentence with a sentential subject?
   "It was obvious that Dracula's girlfriend was flirting with the werewolf."
3. Write a sentences that uses existential-There.
4. What would have to be changed about the the following sentence to turn it into a sentence that can be diagrammed with our phrase structure rules?
   "This song, I adore."
5. In which ONE of the following sentences is the embedded sentence an S-bar? (hint: All the embedded clauses modify nouns but two of those clauses are "relative clauses.")
   1. The boys whom the girls were watching flexed their muscles.
   2. I did not recognize the music that was playing on the jukebox.
   3. The manager rejected the possibility that his assistant was the real brains of the operations.