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Modern Grammar - Assignment 9
James Madison University
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Instructions: [This assignment will be marked only as an acceptable or unacceptable effort.]
- Do exercise 1 on page 115-116 in your text.
- Do exercise 3 on page 120 in your text. Also, for each word on the list that you determine to be an adjective, note whether it can be used in attributive position and/or in predicative possition.
- Determine which sentences below are using "better" as an adjective (comparative form of the adjective "good") and which are using the
"better" as an adverb (specifically, as a manner adverb, the comparative form of the word "well." See textbook details on manner adverbs...). Explain your choices.
- The better man usually wins the race.
- You should learn to sing better.
- Who drives the better car?
- Lucinda's poems are good but Mirabelle's are better.
- After the tune-up, my car worked better.
- Write sentences for each of the following conditions, and underline words as requested.
- A sentence that contains a predicative use of an adjective. (You can use the second blank in the test sentence for adjectives as your guideline for this.)
- A sentence that consists of nothing but a verb. Give a context for its use.
- A sentence that contains a gerund.
- After reviewing the discussion in our text of different subclasses of adverbs, attempt the following: Write a sentence that contains both an intensifier adverb and a verb-modifying adverb (a manner adverb). Underline the intensifier.
- Finally, use our text's discussion of the distinction between determiners and pronouns to determine which of the following sentences uses the determiner "that" and which uses the pronoun "that":
- I have never seen a picture of that! ________________
- I think that flower is an orchid. ____________________