Language Skills I, Homework for Week 8

**A note to my Wed. 14-16 class: We will not be meeting on Dies Academicus (Dec. 7th). Our next class is the Week 9 class on Dec. 14th. Make sure you have consulted both this blog post and the post entitled "Homework for Week 9" in preparing for the Dec. 14th session.**

Concerning what types of questions will be on the exam, ONLY the types of exercises represented in your reader will be on the exam. Other types of practice we do in class is purely supplementary. 

For homework, please complete:
1. exercise 5 on pg. 35.
2. exercise 4 on pgs. 55-57.
3. read through the article on pgs. 39-41 and bring questions about the use of tense and aspect here.
4. the exercise on pg. 168 and the IPA transcriptions in regular English on pgs. 155-157.
5. read through the rules for definitive articles on pgs. 62-70 and complete exercises 4 and 5 on pgs. 74-75. 

Check your answers to exercise 2 on pg. 82 below (bring questions about other alternatives with you to class next week):
 1. can, 2. can, 3. couldn't, 4. could, 5. What you say might/may (in fact) be true. 6. Would you/Could you please open the window? 7. "would you like" is the more polite variant of "do you want to," which you might say to someone with whom you are on more familiar terms, 8. The sentence in the reader should read "got into the habit" in order to be replaced with a modal, as only past habits can be replaced with modals. Only as a past habit can I say "Grandpa would/used to ..." 9. I used to..., 10. You needn't/don't have to/mustn't

Concerning the placements of adverbs, here's a nice breakdown (notice the exception with the verb "to be"): https://staff.washington.edu/marynell/grammar/AdverbPl.html

For exercise 14 on pg. 48, the following sentences can read as follows:
3. (past perfect context) By 3 o'clock I had been waiting here/there for two hours. My brother is never on time, but this was the longest I had ever had to wait for him. I hoped that nothing (had) happened to him.

(future perfect context) By 3 o'clock I will have been waiting here for two hours. My brother is never on time, but this is the longest I have ever had to wait for him. I hope that nothing has happened to him.

4. The royal couple just arrived for their state visit in Canada's capital city. Large crowds turned out at the airport to welcome them. Earlier this year the royal plane was freshly painted/had been freshly painted for the occasion of this visit. Right now the couple is visiting Niagara Falls.

The last sentence of the context indicates that the arrival of the royal couple and the Niagara Falls visit are two separate events. If the couple is immediately escorted from Ottawa to Niagara Falls the context could read:
The royal couple just arrived for their state visit in Canada's capital city. Large crowds have turned out at the airport to welcome them. Earlier this year the royal plane was freshly painted/had been freshly painted for the occasion of this visit. Right now the couple is visiting Niagara Falls.

The fact that the adverbials "just" and "right now" are used for two separate contexts makes #4 particularly confusing (examples like this won't be on the exam).