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1.6 Underline the nouns in the following sentences. Write C (count) or NC (noncount) above each
noun.
1. An iron is made of iron, a glass is made of glass, but a light is not made of light.
2. That guy is not very careful with his money. He gave me two dollars, three nickels, and a penny in
change.
5. The students round a lot of literature about air pollution but only a single article on noise
VERBS
1.7 Underline the verbs in the following sentences. Put a second line under the inflectional
morpheme if one is present. Above the verb, write dyn (dynamic) or stat (stative).
dyn
Example: The mongoose killed the snake.
1. The little old lady raced to her favorite supermarket in her maroon Cadillac.
4. The wooly mammoth, a hairy elephant-like creature, roamed the earth until 10,000 B.C.
ADVERBS
1.9 Underline the adverbs in the following sentences.
PRONOUNS
1.10 Underline the pronouns in the following sentences.
2. She didn’t give herself enough time to get the name of everybody in the room.
3. Some countries are developed, some are not. This is the basis of the north-south dialog.
4. To each his own means that each person has the right to decide what he or she likes.
9. The students were showing the photographs to their friends when the teacher came in.
PREPOSITIONS
1. After class, Alice has a cup of tea in a restaurant before she goes to the library so that she
5. The ship sailed out of the harbor, under the bridge, around a small island, and then out
3. Sally’s parents asked her sister to take her and her brother to another doctor.
4. A lot of time was spent on revising three chapters in the second editions.
5. Almost all of the people in this country have a little trouble with their income taxes.
CONJUCTIONS
1. The king and the queen are not at home, so please come back on Tuesday.
4. Those boys have lived and worked in Calcutta all their lives.
5. Whether beautiful or disfigured, intelligent or retarded, every human being has the right
to a happy life.