ENG1514 Assignment 1

Name & Surname: Werner Bosch
Student Number: 57683492
Module: ENG1514 Ass 1
Unique Code: 627732


Part 1: Knowledge based questions

1) a) On page 11 of the Study Guide vocal organs are listed as your throat, lips, tongue
and teeth.

b) According to page 11 of the Study Guide the auditory organ used for hearing is the
ears.

2) a) Possessive
b) Subjective
c) Objective
d) Objective
e) Possessive

3) a) The verb “to be” changes its form based on the personal pronoun or subject it is
used with as stated on page 28 of the Study Guide explaining concord. “I” (subject) is
a first-person singular pronoun and therefore the verb “to be” changes to “am”. This
sentence is in the present tense.

b) The verb “to be” changes its form based on the personal pronoun or subject it is
used with as stated on page 29 of the Study Guide explaining concord. “We”
(subject) indicates that the subject is plural, therefore the verb “to be” changes to
“were”. This sentence is in the past tense.

c) Concord is the grammatical concept used to change the verb “to be”. In a
sentence there must be an agreement between the verb and the pronoun. The verb
“to be” changes its form based on the personal pronoun or subject it is used with as
stated on page 28 and 29 of the Study Guide explaining concord.


4) a) Content/lexical
b) Grammatical/functional
c) Content/lexical
d) Grammatical/functional
e) Content/lexical

5) a) seems
b) are
c) became
d) happy, beautiful, priest
e) Proper noun