Chapter Two: Problems

Problem One

Identify all the nouns in the following passage from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. For purpose of this exercise, you may ignore pronouns like I, you, he, me, although these are of course nouns as well.

The lamps had been lit, but the blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are but preventing her from injuring another.

Problem Six

Do Problem Six (the Nootka problem) at the end of Chapter Two in the textbook or equivalently, do problem three on the assignment pages for chapter two posted on Blackboard (this is also the Nootka problem).

Problem Eight

The following is an excerpt form the preface of Captain Grose's 1811 Dictionary in the Vulgar Tongue:

The propriety of introducing the university slang will be readily admitted; it is not less curious than that of the College in the Old Bailey, and is less generally understood. When the number and accuracy of our additions are compared with the price of the volume, we have no doubt that its editors will meet with the encouragement that is due to learning, modesty, and virtue.

For every word in this passage, identify its part of speech and mark whether each part of speech is a lexical or functional category and whether the part of speech is open or closed.

Problem Ten

Do Problem Ten (the Lewis Carroll excerpt from Jabberwocky) at the end of Chapter Two in the textbook or equivalently, do Problem Two on the assignment pages for chapter two posted on Blackboard (this is also the Lewis Carroll poem).