ENG 231 Final, Fall 1999

Dr. M. Ghaleb January 2000 English 231 Modern Grammar Final Exam Time allowed: 2 hours This exam has three parts. Make sure to schedule your time to include all three parts. Write your responses in the exam booklet in the order they are presented. Make sure to write the corresponding Roman and Arabic numbers in your booklet next to each response. You do not have to rewrite the given sentence. Remember — if I can’t read your handwriting, I have to count your answer as wrong. I. This question has two parts: Part A and Part B. You must do all the sentences in Part A. For Part B, you should select any 30 of the remaining 45 sentences. State if the sentences are correct and then explain your reasoning. Merely restating the sentence in its correct form is not an explanation for your reasoning. [total value: 70 points — 2 points for each response} Part A 1. Happy girl is in the room. 2. What you see in the classes are a computer. 3. Who has the letter been sent? 4 5 . Even though Jane prefers the Chinese food, her twin sister prefers Indian food. . The man and his family escaped the enemy when they crept into. Part B 6. Candy, not to mention ice cream and fatty foods, are fattening. 7. What I say and what I do is my own business. 8. Of the 50 states in the United States, the President granted federal funding to everybody. 9. The Texas that she talks about will be known to all. 10. I’m seeing my boyfriend tomorrow. 11. The United States’s policy is questionable. 12. The effects of a honeybee’s sting on a human being depends on that person’s susceptibility to the bee’s venom. 13. The author and publisher is from England. 14. He doesn’t have some money. 15. The doctor gave treatment for the injured man. 16. He saw himself. 17. Himself was seen. 18. A he paid a lot for the car. 19. L have a lot of homeworks in English. 20. Whether they know about the story is presumed. 21. He is knowing the answer. 22. The professor is claping her hands. 23. Educated are happy with the decision. wy . There’s hundreds of dollars in the safe. . Half of them are enough. . My sister-in-laws talked to them. . Peter looks awful. . Peter looks. . He lives in Bliss street. . Everybody in the audience are having a great time. . Every student, teacher, and administrator have to help out. . The United States have a population of approximately 250 million. . This isn’t the original set of dishes he found, are they? . She likes the cheeses of France. . He gave the man. . The students were programing the video. . The house is lying in the valley. . Half of this exam have been completed. . Either Pauline or her sister answer the phone every Saturday morning. . John is wondering about the topic. . For the sake of Pete! . He’s feeling the texture of the material. . You will be made a cake. . He doesn’t sometimes visit her. . They came from the west. . Poisonous fungi is sometimes safely edible. Annie has bought a french poodle. . He is agreing with the majority. . The Amazon river flows throughout Africa. . The storm is envelopping the city. II. Write the genitive form for the following (i-e., with ‘s or of-construction). If more than more form is possible, state them. [total value: 20 points ~ 2 for each point] For example, John has a brother. “John’s brother.” “The brother of John...” is an awkward structure as ‘brother’ is a higher order animate being and the genitive ‘s should be used instead of the ‘of’ structure. Still, some usage of this structure is evident in very formal instances; e.g., “We have come here to mourn the brother of our beloved John.” 1. Sophocles wrote plays. 2. Keats wrote poetry. 3. The ship has a siren. 4. The siren made a noise. 5. Somebody has a hat. 6. Something has a name. 7. The school has a history. 8. The world has problems. 9. Europe has art treasures. 10. My brother-in-law has a house. Explain the following uses: [total value: 10 points ~ 2 points each] There is some ice cream, cake, and cokes in the fridge. ‘ He lives in Bliss Street but today he is in hospital. If was you, I would study harder. (found as a newspaper article) Railways’s policy debated Hasn’t somebody called yet? DA es.