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HSC - English 2nd PaperBoard Exam Grammar9. Modifiers

6. Read the following text and use modifiers as directed in the blank spaces: \\Amerigo, (a) - (use noun in apposition) lives alone. His parents now live separate and none of them wants (b) - (use infinitive to post-modify the verb) his responsibility. (c) - (use possessive to pre-modify the noun) mother told him to go away because she is married to another man. (d) - (use determiner to pre-modify the noun) streets are now his home. He wanted (e) - (use adjective to pre-modify the noun) money from his father to buy a (f) - (use noun adjective to pre-modify the noun) ticket. But his father did not answer. He earns his living by working hard. (g) - (use adverbial to pre-modify the verb) he finds work. Some of (h) - demonstrative to pre-modify the noun) works are very risky for him. Once he sold ice-cream (i) - (use (use prepositional phrase to post-modify the verb). But he got (j) - (use quantifier to pre-modify the noun) money in return from the owner of the ice-cream shop.

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