Modern Grammar - Assignment 11 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. Attempt to underline all and only the quantifiers in the following rather long sentence:
   All my friend's clovers had three leaves, but most of mine had four, and so without giving it much thought, I gave him several of the biggest ones because no clover brings as much luck as a good friend .
2. 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."
   Also, is this example one sentence or two sentences?
3. Based on the discussion on page 146 in our text, classify the "or" in the following sentence as inclusive or exclusive (explain your choice):
   "Is that banana ripe or is it unripe?"
4. Re-write the following two sentences as one sentence making use of a subordinate conjunction. Underline the subordinate conjunction.
   The lion spared the mouse's life. The mouse helped the lion escape.
5. Write a single sentence that uses two coordinate conjunctions, one to make a conjunction of two nouns and one to make a conjunction of two verbs.
6. Underline all the complementizers in the following sentence:
   "That child hopes that the circus will come to town, but his parents wonder whether the clowns will scare him if they start laughing.
7. 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. _____
8. Underline the ONE existential marker "there" (FYI, also called the "expletive-there") in the following sentence:
   There is not doubt that the murderer was still there when we were in the basement. _____________________