1. Define noun phrase. 2. How do you determine whether a phrase is a noun phrase?

3.List five different ways a noun phrase can function in a sentence.

4. When should an appositive phrase be enclosed by commas? When should it not?

5. Define verb phrase.

6. Write one verb phrase that contains each of the following:

form of to be

form of have

form of do

modal auxiliary (may, might, must, can, could, shall, should, will, would)

Messalla frowns at the wide circular cover, for a moment returning to his own fussy world.

Read the excerpt from "home front diary." jimmy simmons stopped by today to tell me that he had enlisted in the army. he asked me if i would write to him, and i said i would. i told him that i've been writing to my uncle arthur and susan's cousin john for about a year, and as an experienced correspondent i had some advice about all the censorship. "don't write down any information about your location or the number of soldiers in your unit because the censors will cut all of that away," i said. "in my experience, loose lips not only sink ships, they make letters look like snowflake decorations! ” well, he belly laughed over that one. how is the author's perspective different from jimmy's? the author has been to war and she can give jimmy advice. jimmy has become a soldier and does not believe the author’s advice. the author has experience writing to soldiers but jimmy does not. jimmy has more experience at letter writing than the author.

And are the two main components of poems that you need to be capable of making inferences and drawing conclusions about. and are the two main components of poems that you need to be capable of making inferences and drawing conclusions about. think its facts and clues