The KISS Grammar Book

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The Ideal KISS Grammar Sequence

Book 6

Supplemental Exercises

© Dr. Ed Vavra

Revised June, 2015

KISS Instructional Materials are available for free at KISSGrammar.org.

2Welcome

3Unit 1 - Review

3Ex. 11 - A Study of “To” from “Why the Sea Is Salt” (#2)

4Unit 3 - More about Clauses

4Ex. 4 - Interjection? Or Direct Object? from My Book of Favorite Fairy Tales

5Unit 8 - The Three Types of Verbals

5Gerunds

5Gerundives

5Infinitives

6Ex. 7 - Infinitives as Adjectives & Adverbs from My Book of Favorite Fairy Tales (#1)

7Ex. 8 - Infinitives as Adjectives & Adverbs from My Book of Favorite Fairy Tales (#2)

8Ex. 12 - Mixed Verbals from My Book of Favorite Fairy Tales

9Unit 9 - Introduction to Delayed Subjects

9Ex. 1 - Delayed Subjects from My Book of Favorite Fairy Tales (1)

10Ex. 2 - Delayed Subjects from My Book of Favorite Fairy Tales (2)

11Unit 13 - Passages for Analysis

11Ex. 1 - From “The White Cat”

WelcomeUnit 1 - Review

Ex. 11 - A Study of “To” from “Why the Sea Is Salt” (#2)

in The Book of Nature Myths by Florence Holbrook

Little words often cause the most problems. Pay particular attention to the function of “to” in each of the following.

Directions:

1. Place parentheses ( ) around each prepositional phrase.

2. Underline verbs twice, their subjects once, and label complements (“PA,” “PN,” “IO,” or “DO”).

3. Place brackets [ ] around each subordinate clause. Above the opening bracket, label the function of noun clauses. For clauses that function as adjectives or adverbs, draw an arrow from the opening bracket to the word that the clause modifies.

4. Place a vertical line after each main clause.

5. Draw an oval around each infinitive and label its function.

1. “Why not?” asked the women. “That is just what we have come to do. That is why we stood at your gate and begged to speak to you.”

2. Other millstones grind corn, but these would grind out whatever the owner wished, if he knew how to move them.

3. “You may rest for as long a time as it needs to say ‘Frothi,’” cried the king.

4. He put the two women and the magic millstones on a ship to go to a far-away land.

5. “There is only one thing that I wish for,” said the king, “and that is to make the magic millstones grind, but you cannot do that.”

6. There at the bottom of the sea are the two millstones still grinding salt, for there is no one to say that they must grind no longer.

Unit 3 - More about Clauses

Ex. 4 - Interjection? Or Direct Object? from My Book of Favorite Fairy Tales

by Edric Vredenburg; Illustrated by Jennie Harbour

Directions:

1. Put parentheses ( ) around each prepositional phrase.

2. Underline subjects once, finite verbs twice, and label complements (“PN,” “PA,” “IO,” or “DO”).

3. Place brackets around each subordinate clause. If the clause functions as a noun, label its function (“Subj,” “PN,” “IO,” “DO,” “OP”) above the opening bracket. If it functions as an adjective or adverb, draw an arrow from the opening bracket to the word that the clause modifies. If it functions as an interjection, write "Inj" over the opening bracket.

4. Put a vertical line at the end of every main clause.

1. “Alas!” cried Suliman, bursting into tears, “his flatterers have ruined him. I know that at heart he is good.”

2. “No one, I can assure you, ever ventured on to his estate.”

3. “Here you see me, madam,” said he, “keeping my word.”

4. “I’m going to kill you,” roared the Beast still more loudly. “It’s taken years to cultivate this sort of rose, and—and I’m going to kill you. Unless,” he added after a pause, “you send me one of your daughters here instead.”

5. “I am not mocking you,” he heard in reply to his thoughts; “you have been bad tempered, and you have behaved unkindly to a poor animal who did not deserve such treatment. I know you are higher than a dog, but the advantage of being ruler of a great empire is not in doing all the harm one wishes, but in doing all the good one can.”

Unit 8 - The Three Types of VerbalsGerundsGerundivesInfinitives

Ex. 7 - Infinitives as Adjectives & Adverbsfrom My Book of Favorite Fairy Tales (#1)

by Edric Vredenburg; Illustrated by Jennie Harbour

Directions:

1. Place parentheses around each prepositional phrase.

2. Underline every subject once, every verb twice, and label complements (“PA,” “PN,” “IO,” “DO”).

3. Put brackets [ ] around every subordinate clause and use arrows or labels to indicate their functions.

4. Put a vertical line at the end of every main clause.

5. Put a box around every gerund and gerundive. Label the function of gerunds and draw a line from each gerundive to the word it modifies.

6. Draw an oval around every infinitive and label its function.

1. The Prince was too much astonished to move.

2. Neither of these girls had the least desire to have a husband with a blue beard.

3. “Alas!” said he to the White Cat again and again, “how sad I shall be to leave you!”

4. There was not time even to think of sleep.

5. I have not come to take away the throne that you fill with such dignity.

Ex. 8 - Infinitives as Adjectives & Adverbsfrom My Book of Favorite Fairy Tales (#2)

by Edric Vredenburg; Illustrated by Jennie Harbour

Directions:

1. Place parentheses around each prepositional phrase.

2. Underline every subject once, every verb twice, and label complements (“PA,” “PN,” “IO,” “DO”).

3. Put brackets [ ] around every subordinate clause and use arrows or labels to indicate their functions.

4. Put a vertical line at the end of every main clause.

5. Put a box around every gerund and gerundive. Label the function of gerunds and draw a line from each gerundive to the word it modifies.

6. Draw an oval around every infinitive and label its function.

1. Do you think I should be cruel enough to kill you?

2. “Don’t you know you have only three days to look for the little dog for your father?”

3. The Cat had not taken pains to remember the time when he must return to the court.

4. There was seen a little dog so tiny that it could go through a ring without touching it; he was also able to dance, and play the castanets.

5. At last the hour had arrived to destroy the fatal work of an evil fairy, and to do this he must make up his mind to cut off her head and tail,which he was at once to throw into the fire.

Ex. 12 - Mixed Verbalsfrom My Book of Favorite Fairy Tales

by Edric Vredenburg; Illustrated by Jennie Harbour

Directions:

1. Place parentheses around each prepositional phrase.

2. Underline every subject once, every verb twice, and label complements (“PA,” “PN,” “IO,” “DO”).

3. Put brackets [ ] around every subordinate clause and use arrows or labels to indicate their functions.

4. Put a vertical line at the end of every main clause.

5. Put a box around every gerund and gerundive. Label the function of gerunds and draw a line from each gerundive to the word it modifies.

6. Draw an oval around every infinitive and label its function.

1. Early next morning when the dawn was breaking she left her father’s house, leaving a little note behind her begging him not to be anxious but that she had gone to the Beast’s castle.

2. For several days he flew around hoping to catch sight of Zélie, and at last, seated by a hermit, outside a cave, he found her.

3. “Madame Cat,” replied the Prince, “it is very good of you to receive me thus, but you are not an ordinary cat; being able to speak, and possessing this superb castle, are proof of that.”

4. In vain did his wife plead with him to spare her, kneeling before him with tears streaming from her eyes.

Unit 9 - Introduction to Delayed Subjects

Ex. 1 - Delayed Subjects from My Book of Favorite Fairy Tales (1)

by Edric Vredenburg; Illustrated by Jennie Harbour

Directions:

1. Put parentheses ( ) around each prepositional phrase.

2. Underline subjects once, finite verbs twice, and label complements (“PN,” “PA,” “IO,” “DO”).

3. Place brackets around each subordinate clause and identify its function. [Use “DS” for Delayed Subjects.]

4. Put a vertical line after every main clause.

1. It was impossible to find a flaw in this lovely little creature.

2. It is probable that he might have proceeded in the same complimentary manner.

3. It’s taken years to cultivate this sort of rose.

4. It would be a fine thing to be the mistress of such a magnificent mansion, and the wife of such a rich husband.

5. Now it happened that on the very day she was fifteen years old the king and queen were not at home, and she was left alone in the palace.

Ex. 2 - Delayed Subjects from My Book of Favorite Fairy Tales (2)

by Edric Vredenburg; Illustrated by Jennie Harbour

Directions:

1. Put parentheses ( ) around each prepositional phrase.

2. Underline subjects once, finite verbs twice, and label complements (“PN,” “PA,” “IO,” “DO”).

3. Place brackets around each subordinate clause and identify its function. [Use “DS” for Delayed Subjects.]

4. Put a vertical line after every main clause.

1. “Don’t you know it’s a sin to steal?” roared the Beast.

2. It was Suliman who had helped Zélie to escape.

3. What good would it do to him to be handsome, rich, or powerful if he were wicked?

4. It seems to me that a clever, faithful dog would be very good company.

5. Dear me, it was shocking, the way those two sisters grumbled.

Unit 13 - Passages for Analysis

A Passage for Analysis

Ex. 1 - From “The White Cat”

in My Book of Favorite Fairy Tales by Edric Vredenburg; Illustrated by Jennie Harbour

Directions:

1. Put parentheses ( ) around each prepositional phrase.

2. Underline subjects once, finite verbs twice, and label complements (“PN,” “PA,” “IO,” “DO”).

3. Place brackets around each subordinate clause. If the clause functions as a noun, label its function (“PN,” “IO,” “DO,” “OP”) above the opening bracket. If it functions as an adjective or adverb, draw an arrow from the opening bracket to the word that the clause modifies.

4. Put a vertical line at the end of every main clause.

5. Put a box around every gerund and gerundive. If it is a gerund (i.e., it functions as a noun) indicate its function over the box. If it is a gerundive, draw an arrow to the word it modifies.

Early the next morning the hands awoke him, and dressing him in a handsome hunting costume, led him to the courtyard, where he found the White Cat upon a splendid monkey, with about five hundred other cats assembled, all ready for the chase; and never had the Prince enjoyed anything so much, for although mounted only upon a wooden horse, he rode at a great pace.