Over the years we have received helpful feedback that has contributed to the revision process in creating this second edition. To students and colleagues who have taken the time to ask questions, make suggestions, and to challenge us, we are indebted. | 320 - The Grammar Book 2. Explain the ungrammaticality or awkwardness of the following sentences a. The room s walls are dirty. c. This Time magazine is mines. b. Him and she are going to Akron d. There s no one here besides I. next weekend. Test your ability to apply what you know. 3. If your students produce the following sentences what errors have they made How will you make them aware of the errors and what exercises will you prepare to correct them a. The house of my friend is on the comer. d. Everybody from all the classes b. He kicked hisself for not remembering are going. her name. e. Leo and Hugo hit themselves c. This is Mary bicycle. and Hugo got injured. 4. Second language morpheme acquisition studies have found that the s possessive form was supplied far less accurately than many other morphemes in obligatory contexts by ESL EFL students Dulay and Burt 1974 . We have already mentioned several reasons why the sform causes problems for learners. Can you think of any other feature s of this structure that would account for its frequent misuse or omission 5. In English there are constructions called noun compounds which consist of two nouns juxtaposed to create a compound word. The noun in attributive position functions much as an adjective would for example jewelry store table leg stone wall As Andersen 1979 points out the Spanish construction for both the English s possessive form and noun compound is often the same possessive Milly s garden el jardin de Milly noun compound a baseball player un jugador de beisbol Given these facts what sort of problems would you expect a Spanish speaker to have with English s possessives What two types of errors involving the possessive form in English would you expect these learners to commit 6. We have already seen how the indefinite pronoun one can mean everyone in a general sense as in One never knows who real friends are until times like these. What other pronoun or pronouns in English can also more informally mean
