Ejercicios Unidad 1

I. Parts of Speech Identify the part of speech of the highlighted word in each of the following sentences:
1. The clown chased a dog around the ring and then fell flat on her face.
 1. Verb
 2. Noun
 3. Pronoun
 4. Adjective
 5. Adverb
 6. Preposition
 7. Conjunction
 8. Interjection
 2. The geese indolently waddled across the intersection.
 1. Verb
 2. Noun
 3. Pronoun
 4. Adjective
 5. Adverb
 6. Preposition
 7. Conjunction
 8. Interjection
 3. Yikes! I'm late for class.
 1. Verb
 2. Noun
 3. Pronoun
 4. Adjective
 5. Adverb
 6. Preposition
 7. Conjunction
 8. Interjection
 4. Bruno's shabby thesaurus tumbled out of the book bag when the bus suddenly pulled out into traffic.
 1. Verb
 2. Noun
 3. Pronoun
 4. Adjective
 5. Adverb
 6. Preposition
 7. Conjunction
 8. Interjection
 5. Mr. Frederick angrily stamped out the fire that the local hooligans had started on his verandah.
 1. Verb
 2. Noun
 3. Pronoun
 4. Adjective
 5. Adverb
 6. Preposition
 7. Conjunction
 8. Interjection
 6. Later that summer, she asked herself, "What was I thinking of?"
 1. Verb
 2. Noun
 3. Pronoun
 4. Adjective
 5. Adverb
 6. Preposition
 7. Conjunction
 8. Interjection
 7. She thought that the twenty zucchini plants would not be enough so she planted another ten.
 1. Verb
 2. Noun
 3. Pronoun
 4. Adjective
 5. Adverb
 6. Preposition
 7. Conjunction
 8. Interjection
 8. Although she gave hundreds of zucchini away, the enormous mound left over frightened her.
 1. Verb
 2. Noun
 3. Pronoun
 4. Adjective
 5. Adverb
 6. Preposition
 7. Conjunction
 8. Interjection
 9. Everywhere she went, she talked about the prolific veggies.
 1. Verb
 2. Noun
 3. Pronoun
 4. Adjective
 5. Adverb
 6. Preposition
 7. Conjunction
 8. Interjection
 10. The manager confidently made his presentation to the board of directors.
 1. Verb
 2. Noun
 3. Pronoun
 4. Adjective
 5. Adverb
 6. Preposition
 7. Conjunction
 8. Interjection

II. Read the following sentences and give  the required information.

     1.            The new car is stiffer and provides sharper handling and the quietest running.

2.            Quality control begins with the design process.

3.             They can process products of consistent excellent.

4.             The lecture was at the library and it lasted nearly an hour.

5.             Those industries used the newest technological advances in manufacturing those products.

6.             Airplane may present a noise problem in some office building.

7.             Noise may originate from one local source or may be diffuse.

8.             Office noise is rarely loud enough to damage hearing.

9.             Employees need constant reminders about proper lifting techniques.

10.       He teaches workers stretching and strengthening exercises and suggests them to have a warm-up time at the beginning of their shifts.

	WORD	MEANING
COGNATES
FALSE COGNATES
NOUNS
ADJECTIVES
VERBS
NOUN DESINENCE
ADJ. DESINENCE
VERB. DESINENCE
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