Modern Grammar - Assignment 8 James Madison University

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

1. 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. ____________________
2. Underline the quantifiers in the following sentence :
   All my friends' clovers had three leaves, but mine had four.
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. (This is OPTIONAL--not yet discussed in class, but feel free to give it a try!) The following sentence contains "who" twice. Label in the provided parentheses the type of pronoun "who" is in each case:
   Who ( _______________ ) saw the leprechaun who (___________________) stole my pot of gold?
6. Re-write the following two sentences as one sentence making use of a subordinate conjunction. Underline the subordinate conjunction.
   The lion spared the mouse's life. The mouse helped the lion escape.
7. On page 142, Do exercise 9A (numbers 1-3 and 5-6) and exercise 9B.
8. Do Exercise 10B, numbers 1 and 2 only (page 147).