[...]... me nothing 1 2 3 4 5 1 is a possessive determiner, 2 is a noun, 3 is a verb, 4 is a personal pronoun, and 5 is an indefinite pronoun 1 The architect protested that someone was changing his plans 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 2 I told him he should give me the foreign money immediately 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 3 Apparently someone grabbed my purse and threw me to the ground 1 001- 030 .Teschner.01.indd 15 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9... That man told me many different versions of the old legend that his Armenian 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 grandmother remembered 15 16 5 Yesterday they tried several different approaches but none worked 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 6 The mayor has tons of money he deposited in various banks around the world 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 WRITING IT OUT B Unscramble these words and build complete sentences Example... look for it at the beginning of the sentence or the clause where English subjects usually occur Here are several examples: 001- 030 .Teschner.01.indd 16 4/2/07 6:05:28 PM Case 17 SUBJECT CASE [36 ] John loves Marsha [37 ] Marsha doesn’t love John In (36 ) John is the subject, but in (37 ) Marsha is the subject Another way to locate the subject case is to look for the word that can change the form of (“conjugate”)... golden apples) are being referred to In English, attributive adjectives—those appearing in the same phrase as the nouns they modify—typically go before those nouns Some adjectives in context are [31 ] [32 ] [33 ] The ugly baboon stole the cute little monkey’s banana They were both killed by an evil green monster You’ll find tremendous bargains at the new supermarket Regarding form, many (but not all) adjectives... in the environments ‘I saw the baby’ or ‘I saw a baby’.” 1 never 2 horse 001- 030 .Teschner.01.indd 5 3 sand 4 children 4/2/07 6:05:20 PM 6 Chapter 1 5 from 15 shrink 6 gave 16 shrank 7 grave 17 cheese 8 any 18 Suzie 9 brick 19 bombing 10 next 20 somewhere 11 contradiction 21 blond 12 apple 22 Madrid 13 gastroenterologists 23 ghost 14 smiled 24 honorable B Pretend you are a prescriptive grammarian from... down the garden path 1 I enjoyed the party last night 2 We had such a 3 I 4 think we have , Uncle Lou 5 Wendy and Jerry 001- 030 .Teschner.01.indd 12 wonderful time got to do it all again cleaned up the mess they left invited Rollie to all their parties 4/2/07 6:05:25 PM The Most Important Parts of Speech 6 and , the indentured servants 13 heaved the great big blocks of stone up the face of the monument... out to rob you of yours 3 The high-powered executive who ruined the company finally lost her job 4 If I had to choose I’d rather have this one than that one 5 Anyone could see that someone was going to take advantage of him 6 Did you cut yourself on the rock that you left lying on the floor? 7 What she’d like to know is which is theirs and which is ours 001- 030 .Teschner.01.indd 13 4/2/07 6:05:26 PM 14... She went to the store on the right-hand side of the new east-west interstate 3 Inside the store, she and the manager talked for an hour about the price 4 They finally agreed on just a thousand dollars for a top-of-the-line bike 5 At that point, and without any further discussion, Jackie drove it home 001- 030 .Teschner.01.indd 3 4/2/07 6:05:18 PM 4 Chapter 1 B What are the different meanings that each... colorful lousy grand slow river disgraceful Example of how to proceed: X marvelous: I had a marvelous time at the Honors’ Convocation Y boy: (This word cannot be used as an adjective.) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 001- 030 .Teschner.01.indd 11 4/2/07 6:05:24 PM 12 Chapter 1 ADVERB Adverbs describe, modify, limit, distinguish, or otherwise talk about verbs So, adverbs are to verbs as adjectives are to... as in the following: [34 ] [35 ] Clearly [It is clear that] you want me to leave I will leave tomorrow [It is tomorrow when I will leave] Activity 1.5 THINKING IT THROUGH A Underline all the adverbs in the following sentences 1 Ellen patiently cultivated the friendship of a few people across campus 2 Slowly but surely, the barriers between the two colleges increasingly disappeared 3 Eventually the larger . 28 Problems with /d/ 29 Note 30 2 Verbs, Tenses, Forms, and Functions 31 Conjugating a Verb 31 Regular Verbs 31 Irregular Verbs 32 The Nine Morphological Patterns of Irregular Verbs 33 Verb Tenses and. 131 Reflexive Pronouns 131 Reciprocal Constructions 132 Demonstratives 135 Demonstrative Pronouns 136 Indefinite Pronouns 137 Relative Pronouns 138 Interrogative Pronouns 139 Pro-Words: Pronoun-Like. Modal Auxiliaries 38 The Simple Tenses 38 The Importance of the Subject 38 Imperatives, the Present Tense, and the Excluded Subject Pronoun 39 The Compound Tenses: Present and Past 39 00i-xiv.Teschner.FM.indd