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. Underline all the prepositions and circle the particles in the following sentence:
   With a sigh, the bearded lady from the local circus down the road looked at her diary and blotted out the name of the man who had just turned her marriage proposal down in the parking lot.
2. Give an example of a non-grammatical word that might be appropriate before or after (or maybe both :) ) each of the following sentences:
   • ______________ I'll see you later. ______________
   • ______________ We won the contest! ______________
   • ______________ Open that door for me. ______________
3. Do Exercise 1 of Chapter 5 on page 165 of your text.
4. Give one example of a noun that is normally a mass noun. Then, give an explanation for what it might plausibly mean if you made it plural and used it in that plural form in as a stand-alone noun phrase to fill in the blank in the sentence "We understand ______________."
5. (Re-)read the descriptions of transitive verbs and dynamic verbs in Chapter 5, and answer the following questions:
   
   • Is the verb in the following sentence TRANSITIVE? "My dog has fleas" __________; is that verb DYNAMIC? _________
   • What is the verb in the sentence "The tree might have fallen over last night"? __________________; is it TRANSITIVE? ____________; is it DYNAMIC? ___________