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.

Answer 1

The sentences are marred by incorrect grammar usage, including improper articles, missing objects, subject-verb disagreement, wrong verb transitivity, and illogical personification of inanimate objects.

Step-by-step explanation:

The sentences are ungrammatical due to issues with article usage, missing objects, incongruent subject-verb agreement, improper transitivity, and personification of inanimate objects. Let's break down the issues:

• Article usage: 'The perseverance is a virtue' should not have 'the' before 'perseverance' because perseverance is a general concept, not a specific one that has been previously mentioned.
• Missing objects: 'He has read book' is missing an article before 'book', such as 'a' or 'the'.
• Subject-verb agreement: '*A birds flew into the room' uses a plural noun 'birds' with a singular article 'a'. It should be 'A bird flew...' or 'Birds flew...'.
• Improper transitivity: Some verbs are used transitively when they are intransitive, such as 'vanish' in '*We vanished the spot' or they lack a direct object as in '*They handed the book.'.
• Personification of inanimate objects: Phrases like '*The bread dripped' personify bread, which cannot perform the action of dripping, unless implying it has a dripping substance on it, which should then be specified.