This document contains an in-class practice for an ENG 411B Principles of Modern Grammar module. It provides passages of text for six groups to analyze and identify grammatical elements such as verb phrases, prepositional phrases, and more. It also includes two "stumper" passages and notes that the remaining class time should be used for students to review proficiencies and contact the instructor with any other questions.

1. ENG 411B
Principles of Modern Grammar
Module 3 In-Class Practice
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2. Each Group will be asked to identify one (or
more) of the following:
1. Main Verb Phrases (and Decompose)
2. Passive Constructions
3. Prepositional Phrases (and function)
4. Infinitive Phrases (and function)
5. Participle Phrases (and function)
6. Gerund Phrases (and function)
ENG 411B
Principles of Modern Grammar
Module 3 In-Class Practice

3. It's a funny thing about mothers and
fathers. Even when their own child is
the most disgusting little blister you
could ever imagine, they still think that
he or she is wonderful.
- Matilda, Roald Dahl
ENG 411B
Principles of Modern Grammar
Group 2
Module 3 In-Class Practice

4. There was a tiny dance of melody in the air,
her Seashell was tamped in her ear again,
and she was listening to far people in far
places, her eyes wide and staring at the
fathoms of blackness above her in the
ceiling.
Fahrenheit 451
-Ray Bradbury
ENG 411B
Principles of Modern Grammar
Group 3
Module 3 In-Class Practice

5. Surely it was a good way to die, in place
of someone else, someone I loved.
Noble even. That ought to count for
something.
ENG 411B
Principles of Modern Grammar
Group 4
Module 3 In-Class Practice

6. He screamed in vexation and despair,
dropping the suicide note his love left.
ENG 411B
Principles of Modern Grammar
Group 5
Module 3 In-Class Practice

7. He lost no time in endeavoring to seek
him out, with the hope of persuading
him to begin the world again through
his credit and assistance.
ENG 411B
Principles of Modern Grammar
Group 6
Module 3 In-Class Practice

8. She stands in front of the bright yellow
poem and seems to warm herself by it.
ENG 411B
Principles of Modern Grammar
Group 1
Module 3 In-Class Practice

9. The tenured and tenure-track faculty
will have to change their thinking about
the nature of their work
ENG 411B
Principles of Modern Grammar
Stumper #1
Module 3 In-Class Practice

10. "Segmented and variously focused, the
different women's organizations neither
espouse any single system of analysis nor, as
a result, express any wholly shared,
consistently articulated ideology."
"Dancing through the Minefield“
- Annette Kolodny
ENG 411B
Principles of Modern Grammar
Stumper #2
Module 3 In-Class Practice

11. ENG 411B
Principles of Modern Grammar
The rest of class should
be used to review your
Proficiencies.
If you have any other
questions that have not
been answered today,
please contact me
through WebCampus
mail.
Module 3 In-Class Practice