Modern Grammar - ASSIGNMENT 18 James Madison University

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

1. Diagram each of the following sentences:
   
   1. That nobody is home seems unlikely.
   2. The frog asked whether any of us would kiss him.
   3. Finally, the incompetent landscapers did become aware of the fact that the weather in Virginia is unpredictable.
   4. The butterfly was quite devastated that it could not make butter.
   5. The gladiator's certainty that he could defeat all challengers was getting tiresome.
   6. We suggested that someone should be writing down our ideas because they could save the world. (FYI, there is a structural ambiguity here, but you only have to choose one of the two possibilities to diagram. :) )
   7. For a lion to love a mouse would be wierd.
   8. I should never have hoped for my horse to win the race.
2. One of the following sentences is an extraposition (E), one has an extraposition as part of it (EI), one is an ordinary sentence with a meaningful "it" pronoun (O), and one has a "filler-it" like the extraposition but is a different type of transformed sentence that we have not yet named (X). Label which one is which and write a sentence explaining how you know:
   1. My doctor says that it is essential that we eat our vegetables. _________
   2. It was beauty that killed the beast. _________
   3. It fell to the ground without making a sound. _________
   4. It is well-known that the squeaky wheel will get the grease. _________
3. In each of the following sentences, there is an embedded sentence modifying a noun. In which sentences are those clauses noun complements (NC) (i.e, whole, normal-looking S-bars coming after the kinds of nouns that can have noun complements) and in which are they something somewhat different (Other)?
   1. His certainty that we would be late was getting tiresome.________
   2. The boys whom the girls were watching flexed their muscles._________
   3. Those flowers are blooming in the garden that they cultivated very carefully._________
   4. The manager rejected the possibility that his assistant was the real brains of the operations._______
   5. The king, whom the people did not trust, raised the taxes again.________
   6. The meeting that was scheduled seemed unnecessary.________
   7. That music argument filled us with an awareness that life can be beautiful.________