Module 3 Lesson 7 Vocabulary USE 12 OF THE 24 WORDS TO COMPLETE THE SENTENCES BELOW. ignorant, seldom, improper, impertinent, blunt, inevitable, tidings, imitation, ordained, cunning, sustains, cowskin, humane, barbarity, joist, deprived, inquiries, odiousness, gratification 1. The treatment of slaves should never have been tolerated. 2. Frederick Douglas was never able to his actual date of birth. 3. Older family members are considered to be the of the family. 4. The duration of the book was so interesting, I wanted to read the rest of the book. 5. and can help you figure out the meaning of words. 6. Slaves were discouraged from making about their families. 7. Slave owners never felt towards the slaves who worked so hard to make the plantations successful. 8. The of slavery is incomprehensible. 9. Overseers used a cowskin to whip slaves as punishment. 10. It was that female slaves would be separated from their children before the baby turned one year of age. 11. The was the sly and behaviors that allowed slaves to out smart their masters and escape. 12. Slaves were kept because ignorant people are easier to control.

the sentence does not violate the phrase structure second rule (introduced by noam chomsky) because noun phrases consist of a determiner such as a, the or every, and a noun. in the sentence, the noun phrase the cake includes a determiner (the) and a noun (cake).

on the other hand, the first rule indicates that a sentence encloses a noun phrase, followed by a verb phrase. the example sentence can be analysed as follows:

john (n) + ate (v) + the (det) + cake (n).

in the short story the slip-over sweater by jesse stuart, the main character and narrator shan is friends with grace, an intelligent girl he has known since childhood and with whom he used to be in love.

at the beginning of the story, shan believes he’s no longer in love with grace, but loves jo-anne instead. in order to buy a slip-over sweater and have jo-anne wear it so that the other students would know she loved him too, shan takes a loan at the bank.

while jo-anne is wearing shan’s sweater, his friend grace starts to wear another popular boy’s one, roy’s sweater. because of that, the other students begin to pay attention to grace and compliment her perseverance and effort. they admire her for walking 5 miles to school every day, despite the weather, and still getting the best grades. shan, who knows all of that for a fact, says, as the narrator, ‘and i knew she had the durability and the toughness of a storm-battered mountain oak.’ he compares his friend’s strength – not only physical, but also of character – to an oak tree, whose wood is known for being sturdy.

as the story goes on, shan changes his behavior out of concern for the debt he has to pay at the bank. his new girlfriend jo-anne never asks him what is wrong nor offers any sort of . instead, she breaks up with shan for not being as fun as she thought he was supposed to be. grace, however, not only asks about shan’s problem, but him make the money he needs. shan can’t but notice how different the girls are and what a wonderful person grace is.   even though he used to find jo-anne prettier at the beginning of the story, he now says, ‘grace was as beautiful as our mountain was in april, prettier than a blossom of wild phlox or a mountain daisy.’ his comparing grace to a mountain or something that exists on a mountain (such as a mountain oak or daisy) certainly has important meaning since shan loves the mountain and everything about it and he knows the mountain thoroughly. shan also loves and knows grace as completely as he does the mountain.