Download English Grammar Exercise: Identify Adjectives, Punctuate Sentences, Underline Nouns and more Exams English Language in PDF only on Docsity! I. Underline the adjectivals in the following sentences and identify their type: adjectives (adj), prepositional phrases (PP), participial phrases (part), noun phrases (NP), or relative clauses (RC). Do not include determiners (articles or possessives) in your underlining. Because a phrase or clause may contain another adjectival, some words may be underlined more than once. The numbers in parentheses after each sentence show the number of adjectivals you should be able to find in each sentence (total of 20 points): 1. A large grey cat, acting completely fearless in the face of Bonnie’s attacks, made herself at home on our back porch earlier this fall. (4) 2. Bonnie, who thought of herself as queen of the cats, was startled by this unexpected development. (3) 3. It soon became clear that this new visitor to our home was a stray cat who had been abandoned when our cruel neighbors moved away and left her behind. (5) 4. Meowing piteously but also agrressively, this new cat would demand cat food each morning. (4) 5. We informally named the cat Frowsy because of her thick gray coat, which obviously protected her from the encroaching cold as the fall advanced. (4) II. Punctuate the following sentences correctly. If the sentence requires no additional punctuation, just write “correct” next to it. (10 points total) 1. The cat who had been abadoned by our neighbors soon took over Bonnie’s cedar dog bed which to tell the truth was seldom used. 2. Bonnie would occassionally make a dash at Frowsy who would stand her ground and look quite ferocious as Bonnie approached. 3. When we started to give Frowsy food we observed that she had a huge appetite. 4. It was difficult to understand how a cat who was actually smaller than Bonnie could eat so much. 5. One explanation for enormous appetite of Frowzy who would eat as much as two or three cups of cat food each day was that she was pregnant. 7. It was necessary to feed Frowzy on a high ledge on to which she could easily jump to keep the food away from Bonnie who was not able to walk along the top of the porch railing like the cats. 8. At a party at our house a couple of our friends one of whom was a doctor and the other of whom was a vet examined Frowzy and declared that without closer examination it was impossible to determine for sure that she was pregnant. 9. It was after that time that I observed how contrary to our previous expectations Bonnie was in fact able to walk along the porch railing and get to the cat’s food. 10. We then decided that it was more likely that Frowzy’s apparently enormous appetite was more likely to due to the fact that our beagle was enjoying a regular diet of cat food which was normally forbidden to her. III. Underline the nominals in the following sentences; don’t include nominals that are simply noun phrases. First, identify what type of nominal it is (appositive, gerund, infinitive, clause). Second, identify the slot that the nominal occupies in the sentence (subject, direct object, subject complement, object complement, indirect object, object of preposition, etc.). Some sentences may have more nominals than are marked by the number in parentheses; you can get extra credit for finding the additional ones (3 points for each nominal, 21 points total): 1. Bonnie, our beagle, has discovered how to make me quite upset. (2) 2. Instead of playing with her own dog toys, she has started pulling objects out of bathroom cupboards. (1) 3. Chewing on a tube of my wife’s hand cream was her latest escapade. (1) 4. She thought that I was going to take this object away from her. (1) 5. Seeing me approach, she decided to grab it in her mouth and dash downstairs. (2) English 201 – English Grammar: Key Concepts and Terms Exam 2 – Fall 2005 Name:__________________________
