NOUNS

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.

3. Don’t buy a paper; it uses too much paper.

4. In space, the spaces between galaxies are almost inconceivable distances.

5. The students round a lot of literature about air pollution but only a single article on noise

pollution in American cities.

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 students are working in pairs.

2. My uncle dislikes his neighbors.

3. The spaghetti sauce smelled wonderful.

4. The sunflowers had grown to a height of six feet.

5. The pelican died from contamination by pesticides.

ADJECTIVES

1.8 Underline the adjectives in the following sentences.

1. The little old lady raced to her favorite supermarket in her maroon Cadillac.

2. It was a tempestuous day, a day or racing clouds and roaring wind.

3. It was impossible to imagine that a simple peasant could be so beautiful.

4. The wooly mammoth, a hairy elephant-like creature, roamed the earth until 10,000 B.C.

5. A waiter should be attentive, cordial, careful, and unobtrusive.

ADVERBS
1.9 Underline the adverbs in the following sentences.

1. Gracefully, the ballerina leaped across the stage.

2. The secretary wasn’t very happy yesterday.

3. Ducks seldom take new mates.

4. Nobody can exchange any money there.

5. Pharmacists must work fast to fill their prescriptions.

PRONOUNS
1.10 Underline the pronouns in the following sentences.

1. We met him at the airport in my station wagon.

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.

5. Has anyone seen the coffee? It must be somewhere in these cupboards.

AUXILIARY VERBS
1.11 Underline the auxiliary verbs in the following sentences.

1. Water is coming under the door.

2. That actor has starred in many films.

3. People should help the children in poor countries.

4. The fine is one hundred dollars.

5. My brother has an old Chevrolet.

6. The government will free the hostages.

7. The records ought to reveal the mistakes.

8. Her grandparents do odd jobs for the community.

9. The students were showing the photographs to their friends when the teacher came in.

10. His father had to have an operation last year.

PREPOSITIONS

1.12 Underline the prepositions in the following sentences.

1. After class, Alice has a cup of tea in a restaurant before she goes to the library so that she

can study for the evening.

2. An ape is like a monkey with no tail.

3. Frogs covered the highway from one side to the other.

4. The ambulance arrived in five minutes by travelling through the park.

5. The ship sailed out of the harbor, under the bridge, around a small island, and then out

into the open house.

 DETERMINERS

1.13 Underline the determiners in the following sentences.

1. Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system.

2. Every story has a good guy and a few bad boys.

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

1.14 Underline the coordinating conjunctions in the following sentences.

1. The king and the queen are not at home, so please come back on Tuesday.

2. A bacteria, but not a virus, can be killed by antibiotics.

3. You must pay the fee of face the consequences.

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.