The directions for your fourth 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 the rules of grammar, 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 4 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 for some reason you cannot turn the assignment in on that night, you may submit it as a late assignment on the following day of class; however, you will be penalized for tardiness. If you miss the second date, you will have to see me. The assignment is worth twenty points.

1. Create a sentence of your own in which you use a sentence adverb. Underline the adverb, and explain why it is a sentence adverb.

 

2. Create a sentence of your own in which you use a vocative--or what often is referred to as a word or phrase in direct address. Underline the vocative, punctuate it properly, and then explain its meaning in the sentence.

 

3. Create a sentence of your own in which you use a nominative absolute. Underline the nominative absolute and explain what its relationship is to the remainder of the sentence.

 

4. Create a sentence in which you use either a phrase or a clause as an nonrestrictive sentence modifier. Underline that phrase or clause, and explain why it modifies the entire sentence rather than a single word.

 

 

 

5. Create a sentence of your own in which you use some form of coordination. Underline the part of the sentence that illustrates the coordination, and explain what its effect is on the meaning (and style) of the sentence.

 

 

6. Create a sentence in which you use the correlative conjunctions "neither . . . nor" to connect the elements of a compound subject. Use a present tense verb in the sentence, and explain why you used either the singular or plural form of the verb.

 

 

7. Create a fused sentence, and then correct the fused sentence.

 

 

 

8. Create a sentence in which you commit the error of a comma splice, and then correct the error.

 

 

 

9. Create a sentence in which you use parallel structure. Underline the parallel elements, and explain why they are parallel.

 

 

10. On the back of your page, provide a Reed-Kellogg diagram for the following sentence: "The man in the black tuxedo drove his BMW into the pool."