Modern Grammar - Assignment 8

James Madison University

Instructions: [This assignment will be marked only as an acceptable or unacceptable effort.]

  1. Which of the following can be a noun? Give as many reasons why/why not for each as you can think of:
    1. margarine
    2. fantasy
    3. sure
    4. action
    5. driving
    6. finesse
    7. flashy
    8. under
    9. allow
    10. devastation
    11. craftiness
    12. greed
  2. 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.

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