The directions for your fifth written assignment, to be completed outside class, are below. Unless otherwise noted in the statements or questions, use complete sentences in your answers. In constructing your sentences, observe all rules of grammar, punctuation, usage, and spelling. Please type your assignment, using a twelve-pitch font, and double space the lines so that I can read the sentences easily and have a place to insert comments. Place your full name (normal order), English 139, and Assignment 5 in the upper lefthand corner of the page. The assignment is due at the beginning of class, the date of which is listed on the syllabus. If the assignment is due on the last day of class, there will be no late date. The assignment is worth twenty points. 1. Define the word morpheme.
2. Provide a word that uses a bound morpheme. Put the bound morpheme in bold print, and then explain how the morpheme changes the original word.
3. Provide a word that uses a derivational morpheme. Put the derivational morpheme in bold print, and explain what it does to the original word.
4. Provide a word with an inflectional morpheme. Put the inflectional morpheme in bold print, and explain what the morpheme does to the original word.
5. Provide the definition of a pronoun, and then create a sentence in which you use a pronoun. Underline the pronoun.
6. Provide the definition of an antecedent, and then create a sentence in which you use a pronoun and its antecedent. Underline the pronoun, and circle the antecedent.
7. Pronouns have case. What is meant by case, and what are the cases?
8. In what ways should pronouns and their antecedents agree? In a sentence of your own, give an illustration of that agreement, and explain it.
9. Punctuate the following sentence correctly. In your punctuation, use only one period. Queen Elizabeth I ruled England for almost forty-five years since that formative time she has been described as competent impulsive intelligent and indecisive
10. On the back of this page, use a tree diagram to analyze the following sentence: The committee on human rights has discussed the issue of child abuse.
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