Modern Grammar - Assignment 1 James Madison University

Instructions: Do each of the questions below. [This assignment will be marked only as an acceptable or unacceptable effort.]

1. Look over the online syllabus (falcon.jmu.edu/~cotesa/eng422s11.html) and find the quote at the bottom of the syllabus. Copy it down for this assignment and also write down what you think Wittgenstein might have meant by these words. Add any questions you may have about the syllabus. :)
2. What name would you use to describe your own English dialect/accent?
3. What is your least or most favorite English dialect/accent and why? (The 'why' may not be easy but give it some serious thought...)
4. Give an example of each of the following:
   1. Some sentence structure, word or expression that a friend of yours uses that you don't use (or vice versa).
   2. Some sentence structure, word or expression which you have been told is "wrong" but which really sounds fine to you.
   3. Something that was commonly said by English speakers at one point in time but which is now considered wrong or archaic.
   4. Something that sounds okay to you in conversation but not in writing.
5. Do Exercise 1 on page 3 of your textbook.