Number your paper 1-10. After the number of each sentence, write in order the pronouns of each sentence.
Rule 1.b
1. Last year our school gave two photography courses, neither of which had been offered before
2. The course that I took dealt with the ways in which young people perceive their environment.
3. Most of us block out our everyday surroundings, ignoring details which we have learned to take for granted.
4. You can prove to yourselves how blind all of us become to our surroundings.
5. Which of you, upon returning home from a trip, suddenly notices how different all of the rooms look to you?
6. Some of your possessions may look unfamiliar to you, and a few of them may seem totally alien.
7. Eventually, the impression of newness wears off, and your house takes on its familiar appearance.
8. Each of us can regain the ability to see freshly if we make full use of our sense of sight.
9. We must see the shapes of the objects themselves instead of thinking about their function.
10. According to Claude Monet, a French impressionist painter whose works are world-famous, in order to see as an artist, we must forget the names of the things that we are looking at.
Some of the nouns, pronouns, and adjectives in the following sentences are italicized. For each sentence, list these words in order in a column, using the number of the sentence from which the word is taken. After each word, tell what part of speech it is. If the word is an adjective, write after it the word the adjective modifies.
Rule 1.a Nouns | Rule 1.b
Pronouns
Rule 1.c Adjectives
Example: A hobby is something you like to do
in your spare time.
Hobby n
You pron.
Spare adj. (time)
1. Some people take up a hobby because it is fun; others seek in hobbies relief from their tensions.
2. In this complex culture of ours, everyday living imposes stresses and strains which affect many people adversely.
3. A hobby offers them a release from strain and a chance to share enjoyment and relaxation with other hobbyists.
4. In their hobbies Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower found relaxation from the exhausting responsibilities of the Presidency.
5. President Roosevelt's hobbies were stamps and ship models; President Eisenhower took up painting after he met Sir Winston Churchill, who was also a painter, during the Second World War.
6. All hobbies provide fun and relaxation, but some are also educational.
7. One of President John F. Kennedy's favorite leisure pursuits was a word game in which players suggested unlikely answers, such as "income taxes."
8. Other players had to invent questions to which the phrase was an answer, like, "What happens in your country every year when the government budget comes out?"
9. Crossword puzzles are an educational hobby for millions all over the world, and provide vocabulary exercise as well as enjoyable relaxation.
10. The nature and type of hobbies and leisure
pursuits are limited only by one's imagination and
skills.
List in order the verbs and verb phrases in the following sentences, placing before each the number of the sentence in which it appears. After each verb, tell whether is is transitive, intransitive, or (intransitive) linking. You may use abbreviations: v.t., v.i., l.v.. Be sure to list all words in a verb phrase.
Rule 1.d
1. The modern shopping center is a response to the migration to the suburbs that began after World War II and is continuing.
2. We have tens of thousands of shopping centers in this country, and many more are on the architects' drawing boards.
3. With art galleries, theaters, concerts, and festivals, the big shopping centers are also cultural centers.
4. A typical center contains acres of parking space and scores of stores where one can buy almost anything.
5. A whole town may rapidly develop around a new shopping center, and the center then becomes the downtown area of the community.
6. Because most shoppers are busy people, architects design the centers for efficiency.
7. Parking spaces are ample, and people can move quickly from store to store.
8. The variety of stores interests shoppers who enjoy bargain hunting, but because most stores in a shopping center cater to people of the same income level, prices do not vary greatly.
9. Although the primary aim of shopping centers is convenience, they also provide recreation and entertainment.
List in order the adverbs in the following sentences, placing before each the number of the sentence in which it appears. After each adverb, write the word or words it modifies, and state whether the adverb tells how, when, where, or to what extent.
Rule 1.e Adverbs
1. Dr. Cora Russell spoke interestingly here today.
2. Although she is a physicist, her topic was really astronomy.
3. She recalled that discoveries have often been made accidentally, despite the precision with which scientists always try to work.
4. In 1973, she recalled, radiation fron the Gum Nebula unexpectedly affected the trip of Mariner 10.
5. Mariner 10 was headed for Mercury, there to inspect its atmosphere at close range.
6. Intense radiations from the Gum Nebula were detected by the spacecraft in the unusually clear conditions that prevail everywhere in interplanetary space.
7. The radiations were in the low ultraviolet wavelengths, lengths almost as short as X-rays, with uniquely high temperatures.
8. When they became known, scientists who were working here and abroad quickly realized that they were observing something never recorded before, which might soon alter their ideas of galactic evolution.
9. The Gum Nebula is the galaxy closest to what we popularly call the Milky Way--that is, to our own galaxy.
10. If the temperatures of the Gum Nebula are now to be
our guide, every galaxy--a word long associated with milk
because of the ancient Greek word it comes from--was once a
very hot milk, hotter than we ever suspected.
Copy the numbered, italicized words. After each word, tell what part of speech it is; then after each adjective or adverb, tell what word or words it modifies.
Rule 1.a Nouns | Rule 1.b Pronouns
Rule 1.c Adjectives | Rule 1.d Verbs
Lizards may be sleek, slender, and (1) graceful; or they
may be (2) fantastically ugly, with grotesque (3) horns,
spines, and frilly collars. (4) They have startling habits.
They may snap off (5) their tails when they are seized. (6)
Some may rear up and run (7) away on their hind legs. (8)
Certainly there is nothing (9) commonplace about (10)
lizards.
(10) Warmer portions of the earth (11) have the (12) greatest
number and variety of lizards, but (13) they are (14) also
found in temperate latitudes. There are about 125 (15)
different kinds in the United States. (16) One of the most
familiar is the lattle chameleon, also called anolis. (17) It
(18) belongs to the iguana family, and is (19) quite
different from the (20) true chameleon famliy of Africa. (21)
Both families are interesting for their (22) ability to
change color. The chameleon's (23) large, powerful relatives,
the iguanas, (24) dwell in the jungles of Mexico, Central,
and South America, the (25) West Indies, and the Galapagos
Islands.
This is an exercise in identifying the same word when used as different parts of speech. Copy the italicized words in the following sentences. After each word, write what part of speech it is. Be prepared to explain your answers.
Rule 1.a Nouns | Rule 1.b Pronouns
Rule 1.c Adjectives | Rule 1.d Verbs
Rule 1.e Adverbs | Rule 1.f Prepositions
Rule 1.g Conjunctions | Rule 1.h Interjections
1. The manager likes to hear the ring of the cash registers as the salespeople ring up their sales.
2. According to the daily schedule, the boat makes three trips daily.
3. She chose an especially large book at the book sale.
4. Be sure to turn right at the right corner, our house is the first on the right.
5. That shows you didn't read that
explanation carefully.
Copy in order the italicized words in the following paragraphs. Carefully consider the use of each word, and write after it what part of speech it is.
Rule 1.a Nouns | Rule 1.b
Pronouns
Rule 1.c Adjectives | Rule 1.d Verbs
Rule 1.e Adverbs | Rule 1.f Prepositions
Rule 1.g Conjunctions | Rule 1.h Interjections
(1) Our new neighbors, the Whartons, moved (2) into
(3) that vacant house (4) across the street (5)
today. I (6) enjoyed watching and helping (7) whenever
I could. The (8) enormous moving van arrived (9) about
eleven o'clock, followed (10) closely by Mr. And Mrs.
Wharton, (11) their four children, (12) and
their dog in a station wagon loaded above the windows.
(13) Moving is (14) like an exhibition exposing
(15) all of your secrets to the public, for neighbors
(16) like to gather (17) around and inspect
each bde, table, chair, and lamp as the movers carry (18) it
into the house. (19) Other delivery trucks arrived.
(20) Soon movers, drivers, Mr. and Mrs. Wharton, the
(21) four children, the dog, and (22) others
were getting in one another's way as (23) they rushed
into and out of the house. I (24) offered to help
unload the (25) wagon. I wanted to do (26) this
(27) not only (28) because I was feeling
friendly
(29) but also because I wanted to see what the
Whartons were bringing with (30) them.
The Whartons became more and more (31) distraught as
they directed the placing (32) of furniture and rugs,
(33) cautioned the movers about marring the (34) freshly
(35) painted walls, and tried (36) vainly to
keep the children out of the way. The children (37) barely
missed destruction a (38) dozen times. (39) At
seven o'clock, as the evening was growing dark and the van
was finally pulling away, I heard the youngest Wharton saying
to his parents, (40) "Hey, why can't we go home
now?"