BROWN UNIVERSITY

(1905)

I

Answer all the questions:

  1. Correct any errors in the following sentences. Give reasons for the changes you make.
    1. The man whom she thought was her cousin was not.
    2. After digging for some weeks longer, another strata was discovered.
    3. Seating myself by the fire, which my odious companion had lighted, he thus began his tale.
    4. To the right of this monument stands the City Hall, a building of granite, and a few more structures of less importance.
    5. The tire was cut all the width and was caused by a wood-chopper who placed an axe beneath the tire.
  2. Insert the proper forms (shall or will) in the following sentences:
    1. I _____ be glad to do it.
    2. I _____ gladly do it.
    3. If the school year is shortened, we _____ find that less work is accomplished.
    4. _____ you take my book, or _____ you be able to do without one?
  3. Define the following expressions: predicate, passive voice, intransitive, possessive, superlative.
II

Answer three questions: