Final Exam Key Concepts and Terms - English Grammar | ENGL 201, Exams of English Language

Download Final Exam Key Concepts and Terms - English Grammar | ENGL 201 and more Exams English Language in PDF only on Docsity! Final Exam for English 201 — Key Concepts and Terms - Fall 1999 I. Identify the pattern of the following sentences (Pattern I, TE, TEE, ete., 1 point each, 7 points total): 1. That train always runs on time. 2. Thinking about the Holocaust produces disturbing feelings in most people. Christmas is a stressful time for many people. ws 4. Not everyone considers Christmas a time of joy and thanksgiving... The crowds at the mall are just awful. 6. Family members sometimes argue. 7. Christmas is the biggest shopping season of the year. 8. Even for Jews, the season of Hanukah has become a major, instead of a minor, holiday. i I (SII ie BS 9. Psychologists are discovering alarming levels of stress among some groups. VE, 10. On the other hand, the Christmas season gives some people a feeling of peace and happiness. Il. Identify the verb tense, the aspect, and the voice for cach verb underlined in the following sentences. Each sentence is worth from 1% to 4% points, depending on how many verbs are underlined. (4 point each, 27 points total) 1. A few years ago, | gave my nephew Kyle a book for Christmas. tense:___ Atmel prone 2. This book was called The Polar Express, and it was written by Chris Van Allyn. Tense: 5 A Sam ic Aspect: N thprvapernenee N pos | voice: Perrine P. rues 3. Kyle, who was 5, has an older sister named Megan, who is 8. Fiala Gee eal omens Aspect: N impren N onproy | Alin Aba Tense: _ Voice: In this book, a little boy was taken by train to the North Pole. Aspect: N. Cpa Voice: Pareire The train was filled only with children, but they were served delicious food of the type that children really like. ‘Tense: Stomp Co paak Sard, kp pak Aspect Vemprwrg Nenfores, Voice: Pasuwe Passive The train went further and further north until it arrives at the North Pole, a huge city, full of bright lights and elves, who have just finished making all the toys. Tense: Apple Put Cain Po, butt Aspect: A Venprry Newprey voice: Abin. il Thousands of elves had gathered in the city to for the last ceremony before Santa left in his sleigh. tense: (Cnt Prput Sar Aspect: A V A y voice: Acbine A hence The little boy asked for one of the sleigh bells from the hamess for Santa’s reindeer. Tense: 5 pamper frac =e | Aspect: N irplow Voice: A chine He was given this bell in a little ceremony, but back aboard the train, he discovered that the bell had fallen through a hole in his pocket. Tense:__* Wf dhe fron Lun i pk font ! Perf oe Ne is NM. Ache Achat Aspect: Voice: _Paraene Page 2 10. The book is beautifully illustrated with drawings that will really capture the imagination of both adults and children. words, such as “homework,” after she had said them. (Adjectivals: 5 adjectives, 2 participials, 4 prepositional phrases. Sentence modifiers: 2 absolute phrases) Her hands kept v; busy, They sliced the air and made karate, shone to mark off boundaries. They extended straight Pa Pande out ste ‘a traffic cop’s, halting egal maneuvers ¥gtjo be perpetrated. When they resiéd momentarily on her hips, her hands looked as if they were in holsters. (Adverbials: 2 verb phrases [1 infinitive and | participial], 2 prepositional phrases, 1 clause; ip At home on late summer days like these, , Chris Zajac wore shorts or blue jeans. Although there was no dress code for s here at Kelly School, she always went to worl in skirts or dresses. She dressed as if she were applying for” ae Tense: Su dnp praimk 3 enfles polinw aaperr_Nirpoeg, Nonfren Voice: Patatme Actint. TIL. Identify the mood of the verbs that have been underlined ‘ : : 6. in the following sentences (6 points): 1. The professor insisted that Jim revise his paper one more teacher time, Dirvrnbme _ Saha metine 2. If Jim had gotten started on the assignment sooner, he would nothave had'to re to revise his paper once again. ¢ 3. The conductor on the train recommends that he fix the hole 7. in his pocket. DrdheaLixe J Dmebine EV. Underline and label the modifiers indicated in parentheses after each item. Do not underline other modifiers—only the ones in parentheses after each question. This excerpt is from an essay by Tracy Kidder, entitled “Mrs. ac x point each, 26 ee ere Aa; 1. She was ae i “Abhects a sae white skirt and yellow di. a sweater and a thin gold hecklace, which she held in her Vv. fingers, as if holding her own reins, while waiting for, children to answer. (Adjectivals: 5 adjectives. | relative PP-Ad) ss a hint o1 of lish red’ Ity: ag gut shop to the tops of her ears, an Svept back oe apait of clause.) 2. Her hair wash ne folded wings, She had a delicately clef eft chin, and she was” Ly A 4 short—the children’s chairs would have fit her. (Adverbials: 2 prepositional phrases. Adjectivals: 5 adjectives, 2 prepositional phrases) 3. Although her voice sounded conversational, it had projection. She had never acted. She had found this voice in classrooms. (Adverbials: 1 clause, | prepositional phrase) A ie pr 4, Mrs. Zajac seemed to have a frightening amount of energy. She strode ai gross, the rogm, her ania Swinging high, a hands in si Feat Taking her stand in front of the green’ chalkboard, discussing the rules with her new class mE, repeated sentences: und Her lips Held the shapes of certale) of PP 1 a job, Bad feoped in the back of her mind that someday, heading for job interviews, her students would remember her example. (Adverbials: 5 prepositional phrases, | clause, 1 participial. Nominals: 1 clause. p Outside school, she wept ‘Spaly over small and large he catastrophes. apd at senti ibis ntal movies, but she never cried in front of students, except once a few years ago when the news came over the intercom that the space Shuttle had exploded and Christa McAufliffe had fiied—and then she = in her Ae faces that the sight of Mrs. Zajac crying had frightened them, and she made herself stop and then explained. (Adverbials: 6 prepositional phrases, 2 adverbs. Nominals: 1 clause.) Diagram the following sentences (10 points each, 30 points total): The hikers climbed steadily all morning, but took a long break at lunch. bumbut