English 3760 Name ______________________________

B. Southard Spring 1998

TEST ONE

I. Convert the following comments, which were made by Steven Wright, from phonemic transcription to standard English orthography; standard punctuation marks are included. (10 points)

II. Rewrite in phonemic notation the following statements , which are also from Steven Wright. You should not include punctuation marks or capitalization. (20 points)

a. If I melt dry ice, can I take a bath without getting wet?

b. I bought a house on a one-way dead-end road. I don’t know how I got there.

c. I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn’t park anywhere near the place.

III. Transcribe phonetically the words dictated in class. (20 points)

____________________1. ____________________8. ____________________15.

____________________2. ____________________9. ____________________16.

____________________3. ____________________10. ____________________17.

____________________4. ____________________11. ____________________18.

____________________5. ____________________12. ____________________19.

____________________6. ____________________13. ____________________20.

____________________7. ____________________14.

IV. Identify the morphemes in each of the following words. (15 points)

a. stupidly {stupid} + {-ly}

b. flammable {flame} + {-able}

c. illogical {il-} + {logic} + {-al}

d. misconceptions {mis-} + {concept} + {-ion} + {-s_pl}

e. discoveries {dis-} + {cover} + {-y} + {-s_pl}

V. On the back of the preceding page, identify all morphemes in the following sentence. Pronouns and possessive determiners should be identified with two morphemes each (10 points)

Hasn’t Tara’s mother worried about her daughter’s missing so much school recently?

VI. Identify the part of speech of each of the italicized and underlined words in the following excerpt from "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner Place above the word the appropriate number from the list below. Remember that you are identifying the part of speech, not the function, of these words. You do not have to give the reasons for your classifications, though you may want to list them mentally for yourself as a way of checking your classifications. (25 points)

1. Noun 4. Adverb 7. Conjunction 10. Modal

2. Verb 5. Pronoun 8. Determiner

3. Adjective 6. Preposition 9. Qualifier

It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street. But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood; only Miss Emily’s house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps--an eyesore among eyesores. And now Miss Emily had gone to join the representatives of those august names where they lay in the cedar-bemused cemetery among the ranked and anonymous graves of Union and Confederate soldiers who fell at the battle of Jefferson.

Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris, the mayor--he who fathered the edict that no Negro woman should appear on the streets without an apron--remitted her taxes, the dispensation dating from the death of her father on into perpetuity. Not that Miss Emily would have accepted charity.

squarish 3. Adjective

cupolas 1. Noun

and 7. Conjunction

heavily 4. Adverb

seventies 1. Noun

been 2. Verb

our 8. Determiner

obliterated 2. Verb

Emily’s 1. Noun

coquettish 3. Adjective

an 8. Determiner

eyesores 1. Noun

among 6. Preposition

anonymous 3. Adjective

hereditary 3. Adjective

obligation 1. Noun

dating 2. Verb

he 5. Pronoun

fathered 2. Verb

should 10. Modal

remitted 2. Verb

dispensation 1. Noun

into 6. Preposition

perpetuity 1. Noun

would 10. Modal