English 3318: Studies in English Grammar
Homework 3
Complete all the assignments. These exercises test your understanding of Form-Class Words.
Exercise 1.
Read the following paragraph, and then answer the questions that follow it.
The way people talk about color spectrum, and even percieve it, varies from one speech community
to another, although all human eyes see the same colours because colors have their own reality in the
physical world. Color consists of visible wavelengths which blend imperceptibly into one another.
No sharp breaks in the spectrum separate one color from another, such as orange from red. But when
speakers in most European communities look at a rainbow, they imagine they see six sharp bands of
color: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple.
1. In color spectrum, what part of speech is color? What formal or functional evidence supports
your identification?
2. In even perceive it, what part of speech is perceive? What formal or functional evidence
supports your identification?
3. In speech community, what part of speech is speech? What formal or functional evidence
supports your identification?
4. In human eyes, what part of speech is human? What formal or functional evidence supports
your identification?
5. In physical world, what part of speech is physical? What formal or functional evidence supports
your identification?
6. In visible wavelengths, what part of speech is visible? What formal or functional evidence
supports your identification?
7. In blend imperceptibly, what part of speech is imperceptibly? What formal or functional
evidence supports your identification?
8. In European communities, what part of speech is European? What formal or functional
evidence supports your identification?
Exercise 2.
Make an English-sounding sentence using all seventeen of the words in the following list. Don't add
any other words and don't change any spelling. Use all the words exactly as they are. (Be careful! If
you are too solemn, your result will probably be dull.)
flingboodles
crunky
when
tronixed
blundegg
blinked murglie
under
the
a
their
sliggardly
and
the
that bargle
he
After you have made your sentence with the first list of words, try to make another sentence with the
following words:
strangely
kwiss
juice
believed
bruzz
sny
Joey
phim
house
mother
breakfast
had
satisfactionsev
historicalgwonk
huge