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6.the Waltz Is An Easy Dance To Learn.: 7. Leah Showed Me Round On My First Day at The Office

The waltz is an easy dance to learn in 3 sentences or less. Leah showed a new employee around the office on their first day. It will be a cold night with possible fog patches.

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6.the Waltz Is An Easy Dance To Learn.: 7. Leah Showed Me Round On My First Day at The Office

The waltz is an easy dance to learn in 3 sentences or less. Leah showed a new employee around the office on their first day. It will be a cold night with possible fog patches.

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6.The waltz is an easy dance to learn.

S
NP The (Art) waltz (N)
VP Is (V)
AdjP An (Art) easy (Adj) dance (V)
PP To (P) learn (N)
Grammatical Analysis
category
Number It’s a singular, the noun “waltz” indicates one only thing. And dance is a verb
indicating one only.

Gender The noun waltz and the verb dance doesn’t specify any gender, so both are neutral.

Person When talking about the waltz, it refers to speaking in the third person.
Case None.
Degree The adjective "easy" refers to something that can be done without any problem;
therefore, it’s positive.

Tense Present, the verb is, is expressing something of the present time.
Aspect Simple, the verb is having no structure it doesn’t need any auxiliar verb to be a
complete thought.
Mood Indicative, because the verb is indicating simple statement of fact in the sentence.
Voice Active, because the sentence has a subject that the acts upon it’s a verb.

7. Leah showed me round on my first day at the office.

S NP Leah (PN)
VP Showed (V)
AdjP Me (Pron) round (Adj) / PP on (pre)/ AdjP my (Det)first (Adj) day (N)
PP At (P)/ NP the (Art) office (N)
Grammatical Analysis
category
Number It’s a singular, the PN “Leah” indicates a single person, so it´s a singular form. And
office has a general meaning.

Gender Feminine, the PN Nancy can be changed to the pronoun she.


And the noun office is neuter.

Person Third person singular.


Case None.
Degree The adjective "round" indicates how Leah helped a person on his or her first day in the
office.

Tense Past, because the verb showed is past simple form of the irregular verb “show”.
Aspect Simple, the time has no structure it does not need any auxiliar verb to be a complete
thought.
Mood Indicative, it indicating a specific action performed in the past.
Voice Active, that is performed the action is important.

8.He glared at Claudia as if she were his mortal enemy.

S NP He (Pron)
VP Glared (V)
PP At (P) Claudia (PN)
AdvP As (Adv) if (Conj) / VP she (Pron) were (V)
AdjP His (Pron) mortal (Adj) enemy (N)
Grammatical Analysis
category
Number It’s a singular, the Pronoun “He” indicates a single person, so it´s a singular form. And
enemy is a noun that indicates a single person too, so both are singular.

Gender Masculine, because de pronoun he refers to a man.


And the noun enemy is neuter, but in this case is refers at Claudia that is feminine.

Person Third person singular.


Case The PN Claudia is the object or the problem in the sentence.
Degree The adverb as shows how he saw Claudia.

Tense Past, because the verb glared is past simple form of the irregular verb “glare”.
Aspect Simple, the time has no structure it does not need any auxiliar verb to be a complete
thought.
Mood Indicative, it indicating a specific action performed in the past.
Voice Active, he performed the action is important.

9. It will be a cold night, and there may be fog patches.

S NP It (Pron)
VP Will (V) be (Aux. V)
AdjP a (Art) cold (Adj) night (N)
AdvP and (Conj) there (Adv) / VP may (M.V) be (V)
NP fog (noun) patches (noun)
Grammatical Analysis
category
Number Singular, because the article a refer to one thing. But the noun patches refer to a fog in
plural form.

Gender Neuter, the article a and the noun fog with noun patches doesn’t refer to any gender.

Person Third person singular, and plural.


Case Prediction, the last NP predicts what may happen.
Degree The verb in future form will describes what will happen in the future.

Tense Future, because the verb will is future simple form.


Aspect The verb will need auxiliary verb to be completed.
Mood Indicative, it indicating a specific action performed in the future.
Voice Active, it performed the action is important.

10. American Express is emphasizing it’s ‘the customer is first’ credo.

S NP American Express (PN)


VP is (V) emphasizing (V)
NP it’s (Pron) the (Art)
VP is (V)
AdjP first (Adj) /NP credo (N)
Grammatical Analysis
category
Number Singular, the PN American Express and it refer to a singular thing.

Gender Neuter, because the PN American Express and customer doesn´t describes any gender.

Person Third person singular.


Case None.
Degree Positive, because the adjective first describes the action, the customer is first.

Tense Present, in the case of verb is, but present continuous in the case of verb emphasizing.
Aspect Continuous, because the verb emphasizing focuses on sentence.
Mood Indicative, it indicating a specific action performed in continuous form.
Voice Active, it performed the action is important.

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