Modern Grammar - Assignment 13 James Madison University

Instructions: This assignment contains some practice with noun and verb subclasses and features, and a first attempt at some new material to be discussed on Thursday. [This assignment will be marked only as an acceptable or unacceptable effort. ]

• Choose a dynamic verb that is also transitive (Roughly speaking, a transitive verb requires a following noun phrase representing an entity affected by or otherwise part of the event ot state of affairs being described. Check your textbook for examples.) Write a simple sentence in the present tense using that verb. Then write versions of that sentence corresponding to all the active and passive voice variations list on the back of your auxiliares handout. (A copy of the handout is available on CANVAS.)
• Again using the handout to help, attempt to characterize the auxiliary and tense features for each of the following sentences (examples -- present perfect, past progressie passive, etc.) When a modal is used, you can just describe that feature as "modal." Remember that you do not specify grammatical tense when there is a modal auxiliary.
  1. The crowd fled.
  2. The aircraft was landing.
  3. An eagle has nested in that tree.
  4. The vampires are hunted by werewolves.
  5. Those mummies might have been unwrapping their bandages.
  6. Everyone can be silly sometimes.