Exam 1 Key Concepts and Term on English Grammar | ENGL 201, Exams of English Language

Download Exam 1 Key Concepts and Term on English Grammar | ENGL 201 and more Exams English Language in PDF only on Docsity! English 201 – English Grammar: Key Concepts and Terms – Exam 1 (Spring 2006) I. Identify the pattern of the following sentences (Pattern I, II, III, etc., 1 point each, 10 points total): ______ 1. Bonnie had a big adventure this week. ______ 2. She went to doggie day care. ______ 3. “Doggie day care” is actually a service of a dog boarding business in Lewiston. ______ 4. We call this service “doggie day care.” ______ 5. At doggie day care Bonnie and the other dogs are very active all day long. ______ 6. Bonnie finds other dogs very interesting. ______ 7. During the day, all the dogs are in the exercise yard with each other. ______ 8. Bonnie feels very tired and happy after doggie day care. ______ 9. At 14 months, Bonnie is becoming an adult dog. ______ 10. Next week we may give her the treat of another day at doggie day care. II. Identify the verb tense, the aspect, and the voice for each verb underlined in the following sentences. Each sentence group below contains two or three underlined verbs and is worth either 3 or 4½ points (½ point for each component, 22½ points total). Note that the last sentence has 3 underlined verbs. 1. About three years ago a beautiful male German shepherd named Yoohoo came to live with us. Yoohoo had been given his name by his first owner. We re-named him Hugh, and he didn’t seem to notice. Tense: ___________________________________________________________________________ Aspect: __________________________________________________________________________ Voice: ___________________________________________________________________________ 2. Hugh was only three years old and was very active compared to Sophie who was 12 at the time. He had been living with a young family in Clarkston who were having trouble with a big active German shepherd. Tense: ___________________________________________________________________________ Aspect: __________________________________________________________________________ Voice: ___________________________________________________________________________ 3. The yard of our house is cared for by workers from Lewis-Clark State College because my wife is the president of the college. She has been president there for more than four years. Tense: ___________________________________________________________________________ Aspect: __________________________________________________________________________ Voice: ___________________________________________________________________________ 4. Hugh and Sophie lived together happily at our house for about two weeks. The dog door was used by them to come in and go out of the house. Tense: ___________________________________________________________________________ Aspect: __________________________________________________________________________ Voice: ___________________________________________________________________________ Name:_______________________________ I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X passiveactive nonprogressive or noncontinuous nonprogressive or noncontinuous simple past past perfect active progressive or continuous past perfect progressive active progressive or continuous past progressive passive nonprogressive or noncontinuous simple present active nonprogressive or noncontinuous present perfect active nonprogressive or noncontinuous simple past passive nonprogressive or noncontinuous simple past Answer Key 5. We had not realized that as Hugh was adjusting to life in our house, he was figuring out that his main job was to protect us from any intruder. Tense: ___________________________________________________________________________ Aspect: __________________________________________________________________________ Voice: ___________________________________________________________________________ 6. Sometimes it is not good when your home is protected by a large ferocious dog. Hugh started to protect the back yard against the yard workers. One day he attacked Wayne as he was fixing the sprinkler system. Tense: ___________________________________________________________________________ Aspect: __________________________________________________________________________ Voice: ___________________________________________________________________________ 7. After that, Hugh had to find another home. Luckily, the Washington State Highway Patrol agreed to take him. Hugh was very smart and was given six weeks of drug training. At the end of his training, though, the police decided that they did not need as many dogs as they had trained, so Hugh went to live with a young police dispatcher in Marysville, Washington. Hugh will have been there now for almost three years. Tense: ___________________________________________________________________________ Aspect: __________________________________________________________________________ Voice: ___________________________________________________________________________ III. Identify the mood of the verbs that have been underlined in the following sentences (1 point each, 6 points total): 1. If I had known that Hugh would bite the yard worker, I would not have let him into the back yard. _____________________________________________________________________ 2. The Washington State Highway Patrol required that Hugh undergo six weeks of drug training. _____________________________________________________________________ 3. My wife demanded that Hugh find another place to live. _____________________________________________________________________ IV. Carry out the transformation indicated for each sentence (2 points each, 12 points total): 1. Yes/No Interrogative transformation: Sophie went to doggie day care. _____________________________________________________________________ 2. Cleft transformation: Sophie was usually homesick at doggie day care when she had to spend more than one day there. _____________________________________________________________________ 3. Passive transformation: After his incident with the yard worker, I took Hugh to doggie day care almost every day. _____________________________________________________________________ Exam 1 - English 201 - Spring 2006 Page 2 active nonprogressive or noncontinuous past perfect active progressive or continuous past progressive passive nonprogressive or noncontinuous simple present active progressive or continuous past progressive passive nonprogressive or noncontinuous simple past active nonprogressive or noncontinuous past perfect active nonprogressive or noncontinuous future perfect subjunctive conditional indicative subjunctive indicative subjunctive Did Sophie go to doggie day care? It was Sophie who was usually homesick at doggie day care when . . . It was at doggie day care that Sophie was usually homesick when she had to spend . . . It was when she had to spend more than one day at doggie day care that Sophie was usually homesick. OR OR After his incident with the yard worker, Hugh was taken to doggie day care almost every day (by me).