Modern Grammar - Assignment 11 James Madison University

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

1. 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.
2. One of the two sentences below contains a demonstrative determiner, and the other contains a demonstrative pronoun. Which is which?
   1. I have never seen anything like that! ________________
   2. I think this flower is an orchid. ____________________
3. What is the third person singular masculine object pronoun in English? _________________
4. 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. ________________
5. Underline the quantifiers in the following sentence :
   All my friends' clovers had three leaves, but mine had four.
6. Re-read the textbook's discussion of prepositions and particles and your class notes on these word classes, and then attempt to underline all the prepositions (and not any particles) in the following sentence:
   The bearded lady from the local circus down the road looked at her diary and blotted out the name of the man who had turned her marriage proposal down.
7. Do Exercise 13 on page 159 in the textbook.
8. Mark each of the following examples as either a sentence (S), an incomplete sentence (I), or a run-on sentence(R) based on the constraints on subordinate conjunctions vs. discourse connectives.
   • While Harriet was sunning herself in the garden. _____
   • Nonetheless, the cat ate the mouse. _____
   • We crowded into the room when they opened the doors. _____
   • Since the water was warm, the solar panels must have been working. _____
   • Until I thought about what was happening to the world. _____
   • The fish, therefore, started to wear their goggles. _____
   • Many birds are flying north, nevertheless it is still winter. _____
9. Does the first sentence in the previous set of examples contain a reflexive pronoun or a reciprocal pronoun? ________________________
10. Does the following sentence contain the locative pro-word "there" or the expletive marker "there?": The murderer was there just a minute ago! _____________________
11. Complete the following sentence two different ways, once by filling in the blank with a modal auxiliary and once by filling in the blank with a non-modal (ordinary) auxiliary (note: Only one of the ordinary auxiliaries works here, but it works in either of two different tenses):
    Lefty ____________ take dancing lessons.
    Alternative: ______________
12. Add the negator to the following sentence and make any other changes necessary to make the sentence grammatical without adding additional meaning:
    Frankenstein created a monster.
    ______________________________________________________________
    What auxiliary did you also need to add? _________
13. Do Exercise 1 on page 165 of your text and, for each noun, also state whether it has a concrete meaning (i.e., denotes physical entitites - people, places, and physical things) or an abstract meaning or both.

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