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Joke # 5: Answer Key for Level 1
plus Adjectives and Adverbs
Adjectives are in green; adverbs in blue.In subsequent levels, both will be in gray unless they are in prepositional phrases, in which case they will revert to purple..Conjunctions which coordinate adjectives or adverbs are colored brown and counted as words analyzed.
 

Why God Never Received  Tenure at the University

     He had only one major publication.

     It was {in obscure languages.}

     It had no references.

     It wasn't published {in a refereed journal.}

     Some even doubt he wrote it himself.

     It may be true that he created the universe, but 

what has he done {since then?}

     His cooperative efforts have been quite limited.

     The scientific community has had a hard time replicating 

his results.

     He never applied {to the Ethics Board} {for permission}

to use human subjects.

     When one experiment went awry he tried to cover it up [Note]

{by drowning the subjects.}

     When subjects didn't behave as predicted, he deleted 

them {from the sample.}

     He rarely came {to class,} just told students to read

the Book.

     Some say he had his son teach the class.

     He expelled his first two students {for learning too #1 much.}

     Although there were only ten requirements, most 

students failed his tests.

     His office hours were infrequent and usually held {on

remote mountaintop.}
 

Donna Kleiner, Internet e-mail 3/21/97

Note

1. An unimportant but interesting little question arises here. Although we consider "much" as the object of the verbal "learning," [Don't worry if you don't understand that -- it will become clearer when we get to verbals.] it is actually an adjective to an ellipsed "stuff." That is why "much" is modified by the adverb "too." 
 
 

Progress:
Total Words = 157 Words %
L1: In Prep Phrases  32  20
L1: + Adj & Adverbs 34 42

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