English 324

Worksheet #3

Your responses are due on Tuesday, June 26.

Late assignments will not be accepted.

Please ensure that you write clear and intelligible responses.

A. Use two tests to identify all the subjects in the poem “Politics” by W. B.
Yeats.
How can I, that girl standing there,
My attention fix
On Roman or on Russian
Or on Spanish politics,
Yet here’s a man that knows
What he talks about,
And there’s a politician
That has both read and thought,
And maybe what they say is true
Of war and war’s alarms,
But O that I were young again
And held her in my arms.

B. Identify the different kinds of complements (e.g., direct object, subject

predicate, etc.) in these 7 sentences.
1. He has submitted his work everywhere.
2. I found the CD creator easy to use.
3. I took the Concorde to Paris.
4. It didn’t seem real.
5. Live fast, die young, and smell great!
6. They sold us cable TV.
7. Which question do you consider the most difficult?

C. Labels the main verbs in (1) – (7) as monotransitive, ditransitive,

complex transitive, copula, or intransitive.