Grammar Exam

Identify Verb phrase type, tense, modality, and aspect ONLY (4 points each):

Example: She might have smelled simply terrific. Past Perfect Conditional VL

1. Samson has the chills. ________________________

2. Wally gave Beaver many broken marbles. ________________________

3. Marge might have found Homer simple. ________________________

4. Susan has been feeling nauseous. ________________________

5. Henry was taking some cats to Chicago. ________________________

Follow in the instructions and demark the sentences below (10 Points Each)
Write using the lines to separate the identifications.
Identify the type of each word in the sentence above the sentence.
Below the sentence: Underline the phrases and identify their function.
Below the sentence: Identify verb phrases in terms of tense/modality/aspect.

Example:
pers prespart indef com.
pron modal aux aux MV art adj adj noun
She would have been telling a big fat lie.
NP: Subj VP: past perf prog cond VT NP: D.O.

Wild Bill’s cat should play his last card.

The mayor of Wabash may be finding her purse missing.

Klaus has given her his first response carefully.

Someone could be finding some of the math to be simple.

I caught you a delicious bass.

She would have been at the theater yesterday.

Alice may have been telling her cat herself.

The hamster thought all shoes houses.

9. Those pointed sideburns can look dated.

10. That schmuck was putting up Alice’s blinds.

Generate sentences using the following prompts as models (5 points each).

Identify the predicate as to function (NP: Adj, DO, IO etc.)

Example:

Prompt: NP past perfect conditional VL appropriate predicate_____

1. Start with any simple VL: for example, “Wolfgang seems tired.”
2. Add the elements required (past perfect conditional): “would have seemed”
3. Write out the sentence: “Wolfgang would have seemed tired.”
4. Identify the predicate: AP: Pred Adj.:

Example completed”

Wolfgang would have seemed tired. AP: pred adj. ________________
NP past perfect conditional VL appropriate predicate

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1. NP present conditional VL appropriate predicate

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2. NP past conditional VI appropriate predicate

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3. NP present perfect Vc appropriate predicate

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4. NP BE past progressive appropriate predicate

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5. NP past perfect Vg appropriate predicate

IV. Diagram fully each of the following sentences (10pts ea./100 pts. Total)

Do them as we have in class. Write diagram the sentences between the lines. Example:

Dart cn rel prn/sub mv def art cn mv ind art cn
The professor who assigned the sentences needed a break.
NP: Subj. VP: past VT NP: DO NP: past VT NP: DO
RRC: Adj. ____________________________
NP: Subj. ____________________________________________

People who are not honest do not deserve hearing.

The wombats that rattle the fence are disturbing the weasels.

The audience felt inspired by the music that the monkey wrote.

The girl who was wearing glasses became interested.

Are the vitamins we ordered in our mailbox?