Modern Grammar - Assignment 10 James Madison University

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

1. 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.
2. 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 working 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 goggles. _____
3. 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) or an abstract meaning or both.
4. 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: ______________
5. 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? _________
6. Do Exercise 4 on page 177 of your textbook. Try also to list and explain any alternations you can think of for each verb.
7. Create a very simple sentence in the present tense, using a transitive, dynamic verb, and then create three new versions of that sentence with each of the following features: present perfect, past perfect, modal perfect.