Thank You Ma’am (Textual Grammar) Answers

Thank You Ma’am

Textual Grammar

Answers

Narration Change

1. She said that he was a lie.

2. The woman asked what he had wanted to do it for.

3. The boy said that he had not aimed to.

4. The woman asked whether he would run if she turned him loose.

5. The woman said that she wouldn’t turn him loose then.

6. The boy whispered to the lady apologetically.

7. The lady asked (the boy) if he had not got anybody home to tell him to wash his face.

8. The woman asked if she had been bothering him when she had turned that corner.

9. She asked what his name was.

10. She said that the water might be allowed to run until it got warm and then pointed at a clean towel.

11. The boy asked if the woman wanted to take him to jail.

12. The boy said that there was nobody home at his house.

13. The woman said that then they would eat and added that she believed she was hungry or had been hungry to try snatching her pocket book.

14. She wished if she could be young once and she had wanted things she could not get.

15. The boy asked if she needed somebody to go to the store to get some milk or something.

16. The woman replied that she did not believe she did.

17. She told the boy affectionately to eat some more.

18. She bade the boy goodnight and told him to behave properly.

19. The boy said that that would be fine.

Correction of Errors

1. She carried it slung across her shoulder.

2. Now ain’t you ashamed of you.

3. She said, “You a lie!”

4. I got a great mind to wash your face.

5. Then it will get washed this evening.

6. He looked as if he were fourteen.

7. Least I can do right now is to wash your face.

8. I just want you to turn me loose.

9. The boy could hear other roomers laughing.

10. The woman still had him by the neck.

11. You gonna take me to jail? (‘to’ is omitted)

12. There’s nobody home at my house. (‘at’ is omitted)

Synthesis of Sentences

1. Compound: Pick up my pocket book and give it here.

2. Complex: She was a large woman with a large purse which had everything in it.

3. Simple: Reaching down and picking the boy up by his shirt front, She shook him until his teeth rattled.

4. Complex: He looked as if he were fourteen or fifteen.

5. Complex: When she had got her door, she dragged the boy inside.

6. Simple: The boy could hear other roomer laughing and talking in the large house.

7. Complex: As some of their doors were open, he knew he and the woman were not alone.

8. Complex: After he dried his face he turned around.

9. Complex: Though he frowned, he did not know he had frowned.

10. Complex: When they were finished eating, she got up.

Splitting

1. (i)  Mrs. Jones stopped. (ii) She jerked him around in front of her. (iii) She put a half-nelson about his neck. (iv) She continued to drag him up the street.

2. (i) She got to her door (ii) Then she dragged the boy inside, down a hall. (iii) She dragged him into a large kitchenette-furnished room. (iv) The room was at the rear of the house.

3. (i) It was about eleven o’clock at night. (ii) At that hour of night she was walking alone. (iii) Then a boy ran up behind her. (iv) He tried to snatch her purse.

4. (i) By that time two or three people passed. (ii) They stopped. (iii) They turned to look (iv) Some of them stood watching.

5. (i) Next time, do not make the mistake of latching onto my pocketbook. (ii) Not even do it about anyone else’s pocketbook.  (iii) In such a case shoes come by devilish like that. (iv) They will burn your feet.

6. (i) The boy took care to sit on the far side of the room. (ii) She might want to see him. (iii) In such a case, she could easily do it out of the corner of the other eye from there.  (iv) The boy thought this.