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Identify all the parts of speech used in this sentence (e.g. woman = noun): The woman kept a large snake in a cage, but it escaped recently.
The ( article), woman (n), kept (v), a (article), large (adj), snake (n), in (prep), a (article), cage (n), but (conj), it (pron), escaped (v), recently (adv)
How many adverbs are there in the following sentence? Really large objects move very slowly.
three (really, very, slowly)
What is the tense and voice of the verb in the following sentence? My parents were married in Rome.
past tense, passive voice
What is the difference between grammatical gender (GG) and natural gender(NG)?
GG is based on the type of noun(masculine or feminine or neuter, and is not tied to sex). NG is based on sex as a distinction between male, female
What prescriptive rules for the “proper” use of English are not obeyed in thefollowing sentences and how would they be “corrected”? (a) The old theory consistently failed to fully explain all the data.
a. “You must not split an infinitive.” (to fully explain → to explain fully)
What prescriptive rules for the “proper” use of English are not obeyed in the following sentences and how would they be “corrected”?(b) I can’t remember the name of the person I gave the book to.
b.“You must not end a sentence with a preposition.” (the person I gave the book to → the person to whom I gave the book)
How many noun phrases are there in the following sentence? Robert brought a small puppy to the party and we all wanted to keep it.
5
What was wrong with the older Latin-influenced definition of English pronouns?
t would be better to define pronouns as “words used in place of noun phrases.”
What is the grammatical function of the proper noun in the following sentence? The professor and her students visited Berlin during the summer.
Berlin is the object.
Is Malagasy a VSO language or something else?
It’s VOS
Given these other Gaelic words, translate the following sentences into English: (a) Bhuail an gille beag an cu dubh
(a) The small boy hit the black dog.
Given these other Gaelic words, translate the following sentences into English: (b) Chunnaic an cu an duine mor
(b) The dog saw the big man.
