Modern Grammar - ASSIGNMENT 19 James Madison University

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

1. Diagram each of the following sentences:
   
   1. We heard the university is cancelling all exams.
   2. The frog asked whether any of us would give him a kiss.
   3. The possibility that the lion loved the mouse occurred to me.
   4. She is afraid that her feet are growing larger on a daily basis.
   5. The singer must face the fact that he will not hit that high note.
   6. That the squeaky wheel gets the grease frustrates quieter people.
   7. The librarian had a secret fear that his brain might be getting full.
   8. After we left, someone turned off the lights.
   9. Undoubtedly, many customers complained that the food was bland and overcooked.
   10. The actor doubted if he would get a part in the new sitcom. (Hint: remember that "if" can be a complementizer sometimes instead of a subordinate conjunction.)
   11. You know that I know that you wish that this sentence did not require recursion.
   12. We suggested that someone should be writing down our ideas because they could save us from a big disaster. (FYI, there is a structural ambiguity here, but you only have to choose one of the two possibilities to diagram. :) )
2. Write a sentences that is an example of the noncanonical sentence type that uses existential-There.
3. Turn the following canonical sentence structure into an inversion: "The good part comes next."
4. Turn the following canonical sentence structure into a topicalization: "I do not eat anchovies."

5. In which one of the following sentences is the embedded sentence not a noun complement (hint: It is a relative clause instead.)
   1. His certainty that we would be late was getting tiresome.
   2. The boys whom the girls were watching flexed their muscles.
   3. The manager rejected the possibility that his assistant was the real brains of the operations.