Modern Grammar - Final Extra Credit Option James Madison University

INSTRUCTIONS: This is your final option to earn up to FIVE points extra credit on the final exam, due no later than the regular time period scheduled for our final exam.

PLEASE READ CAREFULLY: Below is a list of grammatical constructions in English. In your reading over the next week or so, see if you can find an example of up to FIVE of these constructions. You may submit a maximum of five sentences, each with a different grammatical construction from the list. (If you submit more than the limit, I'll use the first ones.) Label the sentence you submit with the number of the grammatical construction you think it contains and with the a citation of the source, including at least the title and author number or the website location). (Example -- (12) "There were no other fish in the lake except for perch and a few worthless carp." The Things They Carried , Tim O'Brien, page 143 ) Of course, you may NOT use examples from grammar texts or other sources that actually identify the construction. :)

1. a past, perfect passive auxiliary structure
2. a verb-particle construction (two-word verb)
3. A sentence with at least two prepositional phrases.
4. A sentence containing at least two quantifiers.
5. A sentence that uses the word "that" at some point as a complementizer and also uses it elsewhere as a pronoun or a determiner.
6. any sentential subject
7. any sentential direct object (in S or S-bar form)
8. a noun complement
9. an adjective complement
10. a relative clause modifying a proper noun
11. a sentence containing at least THREE clauses
12. a gerund noun phrase as the subject of a sentence
13. a gerund noun phrase as a direct object
14. an existential-there sentence
15. an example of preposing
16. an example of sentence inversion
17. a sentence containing an appositive
18. a coordinate conjunction of two whole clauses

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