Modern Grammar - Assignment 13 James Madison University

Instructions: This assignment contains both some more practice with word class details, plus some practice with new material for Thursday. [This assignment will be marked only as an acceptable or unacceptable effort. ]

1. Write the appropriate word class abbreviation above each word in the following sentences:
   
   1. Those tiny cupcakes are adorable.

   
   

   2. On his birthday, my father will need eighty candles on the cake.

   
   

   3. Everyone saw the flying saucer, but nobody is admitting it.

   
   

   4. Because you sent out no invitations, many of your friends did not attend the party.

   
   

   5. I think that the elephant looks lovely in that pink tutu.

   
   

   6. The new manager wants us to be more friendly to the customers.

   
   

   7. If you have time, you can watch this video.

   
   

   8. The baker wondered if his bread was burning.

2. Using the handout and the posted video(s) on noun and verb subclasses and features, attempt the following:
   
   1. Exercise 1, p. 165 of Chapter 5 in our textbook.
   2. List four different INTRANSITIVE verbs. In other words list four verbs that can occur in a grammatical sentence with no words coming after the verb (i.e, as our textbook describes it, as verbs that have only one required NP -- the subject that comes before the verb).
   3. For each of your intransitive verbs, write a sentence containing that verb.
   4. Exercise 11, p. 194 of Chapter 5 in our textbook.