10 points to whoever manages a correct answer?

Question

A few (somewhat) simple grammar questions:
1.) Does the subjunctive mood exist in Enligsh? (Easy)
2.) Does the passive voice take a direct object? Does the verb "to be" take a direct object? (Easy)
3.) What question does an indirect statement answer (usually)? (Medium)
4.) Can a conjunction connect to unequal things (EX: A subject and a clause)? (Medium)
5.) Can a verb be used as a noun? If so, what is this called? (Medium)
6.) Is a "niether...nor" construction accounted as a double negative? (Easy)
7.) Does an impersonal verb take a subject? (Medium)
8.) Is the word "it" considered the subject of an impersonal verb? (medium)
9.) Do adverbs have degrees of manner? (Medium)
10.) How is an introductory conjunction like an adverb? (Hard)

You should get the easy ones right. The Mediums aren't so bad either. The Hard one shouldn't be hard for people who are well into High School or college or beyond.

Answer 1

1.) Does the subjunctive mood exist in Enligsh? (Easy)
Yes, it's still there. I only wish it were used more. I recommend that everyone use it.


2.) Does the passive voice take a direct object? Does the verb "to be" take a direct object? (Easy)

No and no. The direct object is transformed into the subject in the passive voice. What comes after the verb "to be" is a complement.

3.) What question does an indirect statement answer (usually)? (Medium)

I don't know this one.

4.) Can a conjunction connect to unequal things (EX: A subject and a clause)? (Medium)

sort of, as in "Jimmy Hoffa's body (subject1) and (conj.) whoever killed him (noun clause as subject2) may never be found.

5.) Can a verb be used as a noun? If so, what is this called? (Medium)

Yes. You might mean a gerund, as in "Exercising is bad", but my boss recently called it "nouning".

6.) Is a "niether...nor" construction accounted as a double negative? (Easy)

not in a bad way, no

7.) Does an impersonal verb take a subject? (Medium)

yes
8.) Is the word "it" considered the subject of an impersonal verb? (medium)

Do you mean the expletive "it"? Yes, it is the grammatical subject.

9.) Do adverbs have degrees of manner? (Medium)

I don't know what you mean.

10.) How is an introductory conjunction like an adverb? (Hard)

You mean like "but" and "however"? They may connect clauses.

Answer 2

1.) Does the subjunctive mood exist in Enligsh? (Easy)
Yes, it does, but most people don't realize they're using it because the verb forms aren't spelled differently in English the way they are in other languages.

2.) Does the passive voice take a direct object? Does the verb "to be" take a direct object? (Easy)
Passive voice: Yes. Verb "to be": No, if you mean in a situation that requires a noun or a nominative adjective in the predicate (such as: "I am silly" or "I am a girl.") Are you thinking of a more complicated construction?

3.) What question does an indirect statement answer (usually)? (Medium)
It answers the question of WHAT was acted on, not WHO (or what) performed the action.

4.) Can a conjunction connect to unequal things (EX: A subject and a clause)? (Medium)

Sure--it's called a complex sentence, and the conjunction in question joins an independent clause (full sentence) with a dependent clause.

5.) Can a verb be used as a noun? If so, what is this called? (Medium)
Yes, and it's called nominalization.

6.) Is a "niether...nor" construction accounted as a double negative? (Easy)
No, because it's a use of coordinating conjunction that indicates "not this thing and not that thing," which is clunky to state otherwise.

7.) Does an impersonal verb take a subject? (Medium)
I can't think of one in English. but in Spanish, we say "Llueve," which means "It's raining." Same thing for "Nieve," for "It's snowing."

8.) Is the word "it" considered the subject of an impersonal verb? (medium)
Only in English, as above.

9.) Do adverbs have degrees of manner? (Medium)
I think adverbs ARE descriptions of degree or manner--how much or little of how something performs whatever the verb or adjective is (whatever the adverb modifies--either a verb or an adjective, or occasionally, another adverb).

10.) How is an introductory conjunction like an adverb? (Hard)
I would guess that it works (when done correctly) like an implied repitition of the prior explanatory statement telling "how" something was or was not done.

Answer 3

1) Yes it does. ("If I WERE to do this....")
2) There can be a direct objecet with the passive voice as well as with "to be."
3) To whom is the action done.
4) Yes--but.
5) Yes, it's called a gerund (reading, sleeping).
6) No.
7) There is always a subject.
8) Yes, usually.
9) They do.
10) This one I'll admit to not knowing.

Answer 4

I wasn't an English major and I have no idea how long it's been since we looked at grammar in college that way. BTW, what is a "subjunctive mood"??