Modern Grammar - Assignment 12 James Madison University

Instructions: [This assignment will be marked only as an acceptable or unacceptable effort. ]Note that anyone who didn't get or who has lost the handout on auxiliaries can find it under Blackboard documents. Also posted there is a handout on grammatical and semantic roles that might help you in your understanding of NPs (and other "participants") that can be required by a verb.

1. Do Exercise 4 on page 177 of your textbook. Try also to list and explain any alternations you can think of for each verb.
2. Create a sentence in the present tense that uses a transitive, dynamic verb, and then create a list of the possible variants of that sentence in active voice (i.e., no passive) by varying grammatical tenses, tne presence or absence of a modal auxiliary, and the perfect and progressive auxiliary structures. Your sentences should look similar to the active voice examples based on "Frank fries fritters" in your handout. (But feel free to skip the alliteration in your example:) ). Note that, for variants with a modal auxiliary in them, you can just choose one modal; you don't need to use each different modal as another example! Label the form of each of your sentences (for example, "past perfect").