The directions for your first 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 1 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. Define prescriptive grammar.
2. Define descriptive grammar.
3. Create your own sentence in which you underline the subject, and explain why it is the subject.
4. Create your own sentence in which you underline the predicate, and explain why it is the predicate.
5. Your text talks a great deal about the words form and function. Define what the authors mean by form, and provide an example to illustrate the definition.
6. Define what the authors mean by function, and provide an example to illustrate the definition.
7. Define what a transitive verb is, and provide an example of a sentence with a transitive verb. Underline the transitive verb.
8. Define what an intransitive verb is, and provide an example of a sentence with an intransitive verb. Underline the intransitive verb.
9. Define what a linking verb is, and provide an example of a sentence with a linking verb. Underline the linking verb.
10. Define what a verb to be is, and provide an example of a sentence with a verb to be. Underline the verb to be.
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