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Modern Grammar - Assignment 8
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James Madison University
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Instructions: [This assignment will be marked only as an acceptable or unacceptable effort.]
- Which of the following can be a noun? Give as many reasons why/why not for each as you can think of:
- margarine
- fantasy
- sure
- action
- driving
- finesse
- flashy
- under
- allow
- devastation
- craftiness
- greed
- Next, find a very short paragraph from a literary work, a newspaper, or any other source for which you do not already have a grammatical analysis available. Make a list of all the words you are confident are nouns and a separate list of any words you are not sure about. Include the full paragraph with your assignment.
- Re-read our textbook's discussions of verbs in Chapter 4. Which of the following can be a verb? Give as many reasons why/why not for each as you can think of:
- marinate
- fantastic
- sure
- event
- driving
- panic
- cleanse
- glove
- understand
- after
- Do exercise 1 on page 115-116 in your text.