Question

Use features to explain why the following sentences are ungrammatical:

1. The perseverance is a virtue.
2. He has read book.
3. *A birds flew into the room.
4. *Despair dropped to the floor.
5. *The eagle prayed for an hour.
6. *They handed the book.
7. *We vanished the spot.
8. *The tree coughed loudly.
9. *The bread dripped.
10. *My boss elapsed.


B. Give the features of the boldfaced words:
1. The monkey chewed the food slowly.
2. A student coughed loudly.
3. He glanced at the water.
4. Bob handed a ruler to me.
5. The accident occurred yesterday.



C. Examine the following sentences and decide why some of them are ungrammat-
ical. What generalizations can you make about much, many, fewer, and less?
1.Many apples were in the basket.
2. *Much children were in the room.
3.Much energy was spent on this project.
4. *Many dandruff was in his hair.
5. *He ate less apples than I did.
6. He has fewer poise than I .
7.He has fewer friends than I have.
8.She has less confidence than Jane has.

Answer 1

Sentences with ungrammatical features and their corrections, features of boldfaced words, and generalizations about much, many, fewer, and less.

Step-by-step explanation:

Examples of Ungrammatical Sentences:

1. The perseverance is a virtue. - The subject 'perseverance' should be used with an article, such as 'The perseverance' or 'A perseverance.'
2. He has read book. - The article 'a' should be used before the noun 'book.'
3. A birds flew into the room. - The plural form of 'bird' should be used, so it should be 'Birds flew into the room.'
4. Despair dropped to the floor. - The verb 'drop' should be used intransitively, so it should be 'Despair fell to the floor.'

Features of the boldfaced words:

1. The monkey chewed the food slowly. - 'The' is an article, 'monkey' is a noun, 'chewed' is a verb, 'food' is a noun, 'slowly' is an adverb.
2. A student coughed loudly. - 'A' is an article, 'student' is a noun, 'coughed' is a verb, 'loudly' is an adverb.
3. He glanced at the water. - 'He' is a pronoun, 'glanced' is a verb, 'at' is a preposition, 'the' is an article, 'water' is a noun.
4. Bob handed a ruler to me. - 'Bob' is a proper noun, 'handed' is a verb, 'a' is an article, 'ruler' is a noun, 'to' is a preposition, 'me' is a pronoun.

Generalizations about much, many, fewer, and less:

1. 'Many' is used with countable nouns, while 'much' is used with uncountable nouns.
2. 'Fewer' is used with countable nouns, while 'less' is used with uncountable nouns.
3. When comparing quantities, 'fewer' is used with countable nouns and 'less' is used with uncountable nouns.