Modern Grammar - Final Extra Credit Options
James Madison University
INSTRUCTIONS: You may optionally choose to earn up to FIVE points extra credit on the final exam. All extra credit is due no later than with the final exam.
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY: Below is a list of grammatical constructions in English. In your reading over the next few days, see if you can find an example of up to FIVE of these constructions. You may submit a maximum of five sentences, each with a different grammatical construction from the list. (If you submit more than five, I'll use the first five.) Label the sentence you submit with the number of the grammatical construction you think it contains and with the a citation of the source, including at least title, author, and page number. (Example -- (12) "There were no other fish in the lake except for perch and a few worthless carp." The Things They Carried , Tim O'Brien, page 143 ) Of course, you may NOT use examples from grammar texts or other sources that actually identify the construction. :)
a present, perfect, passive auxiliary structure
a verb-particle construction
A sentence with at least three prepositional phrases.
a gerund noun phrase as the object of a preposition
a gerund noun phrase as a direct object
an infinitive sentential subject
any sentential direct object (S or S-bar)
a relative clause set off from the noun it modifies by commas (ie., a non-restrictive relative clause)
a relative clause modifying a pronoun
a sentence containing at least THREE clauses
an it-cleft
an existential-there
an appositive
preposing
inversion
a coordinate conjunction of two clauses (S conj S)
an extraposition
a fragment of a sentence that is punctuated as a whole sentence
