Exercise 1
I.
Identify all parts of speech embedded in the text.
II.
Pin down the phrases & sub-clauses the text contains and tell to what
types they do belong.
Driver Loses Mabel, Finds Jail
A fifteen-year-old boy was injured in a car
accident when the minivan he was traveling in was hit by a pickup truck at an
intersection. The boy was taken to a nearby hospital. The paramedics said that
it appeared that the boy had nothing more serious than a broken left leg, but
that internal injuries were always a possibility. The boy was conscious and
alert. His mother, who was driving, was uninjured. She said that the truck
appeared out of nowhere, and she thought she was going to die. She turned the
steering wheel sharply to the left, and the truck hit her minivan on the
passenger side.
