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Modern Grammar - Assignment 9
James Madison University
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Instructions: [This assignment will be marked only as an acceptable or unacceptable effort.]
- Re-write the following two sentences as one sentence making use of a subordinate conjunction. Underline the subordinate conjunction.
The lion spared the mouse's life. The mouse helped the lion escape.
- The following example contains either a subordinate conjunction or a discourse connective. Underline the relevant word and state which it is:
"I certainly will try to cook us something for dinner; however, I make no promises about the results.
- One of the two sentences below contains a demonstrative determiner, and the other contains a demonstrative pronoun. Which is which?
- I have never seen anything like that! ________________
- I think this flower is an orchid. ____________________
- What is the third person singular masculine object pronoun in English? _________________
- What is the antecedent of the pronoun "her" in the following sentence?
My friend moved from Virginia to New York, but I still keep in touch with her. ________________
- On page 142, Do exercise 9A with the following slight change in the instructions: in each example just label the italicized word, based on its use in that sentence, as a gerund, an adjective, or OTHER (which will include normal uses of verbs in sentences and special verbal participle uses).
- Do Exercise 10B, numbers 1 and 2 only (page 147).
- (This was not yet discussed in class.. Just use the textbook to give it a try!) The following sentence contains "who" twice. Label in the provided parentheses the type of pronoun "who" is in each case:
Who ( _______________ ) saw the leprechaun who (___________________) stole my pot of gold?
- (Something else to try -- after reading the textbook discussion of quantifiers. Hint: they are sometimes more similar to pronouns and sometimes more similar to determiners...) Underline the quantifiers in the following sentence :
All my friends' clovers had three leaves, but mine had four.
