Modern Grammar - Assignment 11 James Madison University

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

1. Do Exercise 1 on page 165 of your text (note that the phrase "in terms of their logical meaning" is referring to the semantic roles that go with a particular verb). For each noun, also state whether it has a concrete meaning, an abstract meaning, or both.
2. Do Exercise 4 on page 177 of your textbook. Try also to list and explain any alternations you can think of for each verb.
3. Create a sentence in the present tense that uses a transitive, dynamic verb, and then create a list of the possible variants of that sentence in active voice (i.e., no passive) by varying grammatical tenses, tne presence or absence of a modal auxiliary, and the perfect and progressive auxiliary structures. Your sentences should look similar to the active voice examples based on "Frank fries fritters" in your handout. (But feel free to skip the alliteration :) ). Note that, for variants with a modal auxiliary in them, you can just choose one modal; you don't need to use each different modal as another example! Label the form of each of your sentences (for example, "past perfect").