Lesson Two - Homework

Get A Grip on Grammar        Lesson Two

Part I

1. If the weather is nice, we will go for a picnic.  (Declarative)

2. Take the car to the mechanic.  (Imperative)

3. Jane wrote an essay on traveling in Asia.  (Declarative)

4. Where are you going for your vacation?  (Interrogative)

5. Did you buy cat food last night?  (Interrogative)

6. Please, make dinner before I come home.  (Imperative)

7. The mailman delivered several bills today.  (Declarative)

8. Help get this tiger off me!  (Exclamatory)

9. Nathan writes stories about children in different countries.  (Declarative)

10. The tree at the end of the driveway needs trimming.  (Imperative)

Part II

1. The roast was cooked to perfection, but the potatoes were raw.  (Compound)

2. I wrote a lengthy story about a gnome from another planet.  (Complex)

3. If the bread doesn’t rise, you need to place it near a warm oven.  (Complex)

4. The old man in the yellow jacket on the bench under the tree is reading a book.  (Compound/Complex)

5. The flowers and vegetables in the garden need to be watered and fed.  (Compound/Complex)

6. Sally’s little girl got a kitten for her birthday, and her little boy received a puppy.  (Compound/Complex)

7. Although I have a headache, I baked a cake for the party, and Herbert decorated the house.  (Compound/Complex)

8. I bought some potato salad for the picnic because I didn’t have time to make any.  (Complex)

9. When the old man fell down the hill, he broke his hip.  (Complex)

10. I should work out more, but it’s difficult to get up in the morning when I go to bed so late.  (Compound/Complex)

Part III

1. Niagra Falls (Subject) is (Linking Verb) beautiful (Predicate Adjective) in the fall.

2. Jake (Subject) raked (Action Verb) the leaves (Direct Object) in the back yard last night.  (Predicate Adjective)

3. The basket (Subject) of clothes on the drier needs to be folded (Action Verb).

4. The flowers and the dandelions (Compound Subject) decorate (Action Verb) my front lawn (Direct Objective).

5. The building (Subject) on the left was used (Linking Verb) for major summer festivals.



Part IV

(Caressa—I have no idea if this is what you wanted.  Sorry)          

A man stood in the shadows.  He puffed on a cigarette as he watched the warehouse across the street.  Metal rumbled as a garage door lurched open.  He tossed his cigarette in the gutter, tugged his fedora lower on his forehead and crossed the street with a deliberate stride.  Two men appeared silhouetted in the pulsing neon light of the garage. The taller of the two leaned in and muttered something that made the shorter man let out a course laugh. The man in the fedora stepped under a street light and the others stopped short, looked at each other and drew their guns.  But they were too late.  The man in the fedora had already begun shooting.  They lay in the gutter, dead—their guns unfired.

         

(Caressa—Take Two is after getting your email…)



         George yawned and stretched.  Then he looked out the window at a tall man.  He was leaning against a wall, smoking a cigarette, half hidden in the shadows.  A garage door rumbled, as it lurched opened across the street.  The man tossed the cigarette into the gutter.  George stood up.  What was going on?  He watched as two men were silhouetted in the fluorescent light of the garage.  He looked back at the man, who had pulled a gun from his pocket.  What the hell!  Stunned, he watched as the man shot the other two in cold blood.