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Joke # 3: Answer Key for Level 1
Current technology makes it extremely difficult to draw lines, etc. from word to word in web documents. In Level One, I have therefore indicated words modified by prepositional phrases in following brackets. These brackets will be deleted in the answer keys to subsequent levels.
 
 
    One day, an Eastern University professor visited 

the expanding campus {of the University} [Adjective to 

"campus"] {of California} [Adjective to "University"]

{at Los Angeles.} [Adjective to "campus"]  He watched 

construction work {on half a dozen new buildings.} [Adjective

to "work"]  He inspected new laboratories and attended 

summer classes {in modern study rooms.} [Note #1]

He walked {across miles} [Adverb to "walked"]  {of 

eucalyptus-lined lawns [Adjective to "miles"]

and athletic fields}[Note #2] {with one} [Adverb to "walked"]  {of 

the deans.} [Adjective to "one"] He was impressed.

     "My," he said, "just how many students do you 

have here?"

     "Let me see," the dean answered thoughtfully,

"I'd say about#3 one {in a hundred."} [Adjective to "one"]
 

Baude's Handbook of Humor for All Occasions.
Compiled by Jacob M. Braude. 
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1958. p. 52.


Notes

1. Some people will want to take {in modern study rooms} to "attended" as an adverb; others will prefer taking it to "classes" as an adjective. Either answer should be considered correct.

2. Note the inherent ambiguity: as I have interpreted it, the "and" joins "lawns" and "fields," so the athletic fields may be "eucalyptus-lined." Equally correctly, one could consider this as a case of an ellipsedpreposition: "{across miles} {of eucalyptus-lined lawns} and {*across*athletic fields}."

3. "About" here means "aproximately," so "about one" is not a prepositional phrase..
 

Progress:
Total Words = 83 Words %
L1: In Prep Phrases  34  41

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