Traditional Grammar - Assignment 17 James Madison University

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

• Re-read Emery Lesson 12 and attempt to diagram the following sentences:
  1. The hunters had to be very quiet. (Infinitive as part of a verb phrase - with the phrasal auxiliary "have to")
  2. They prefer their fish to be raw and very fresh. (direct object infinitive phrase that has a subject.)
  3. For that soup to be perfect would require some fresh herbs. (Infinitival subject- infinitive phrase has a subject and is introduced by the subordinate conjunction "for" -- note that this sentence may sound awkward to you.)
  4. It would be nice for everyone to sing with us at the end of the song. (another infinitival subject, but one that is moved to the end and a "filler-it" is used as a placeholder -- note that this sentence may sound more natural than the previous sentence.)
  5. The team should let him have another chance. (an infinitival direct object, but this time there is no "to" though the infinitive phrase does have a subject...