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LCS 212 Assignment 2 2024
Due Date for marking: 29 April 2024
Submit on the provided link.
Instructions:
Watch and listen to this song ‘The Times They Are A-Changin' by Bob Dylan and answer the following questions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90WD_ats6eE
For the lyrics https://genius.com/Bob-dylan-the-times-they-are-a-changin-lyrics
1. List the first 8 VPs in stanza 1? (8)
Come gather ‘round, people, wherever you roam And admit that the waters around you have grown And accept it that soon you’ll be drenched to the bone If your time to you is worth saving And you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone For the times, they are a-changin'
2. List the first 7 Clauses in stanza 2? (7)
Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide, the chance won't come again And don't speak too soon, for the wheel's still in spin And there's no tellin' who that it's namin' For the loser now will be later to win For the times they are a-changin' 3. Carry out a Clause Complex Analysis and list all the clauses in the stanza 4 (8) Come mothers and fathers throughout the land And don't criticize what you can't understand Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command Your old road is rapidly aging Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand For the times they are a-changin' 4. Write a short comment with 5 clauses in which you tell us about your perception on this song as a text for this assignment. (10) o First clause should be the topic sentence/any sentence that might be relating to the question/2marks o Other 4 clauses/ 2 marks per clause (If students wrote more than 5 clauses, only mark the first five clauses)
5. Draw the fully labeled tree diagrams of the following Clauses
extracted from the Song. Your diagrams should have well-connected lines. a) The chance won't come again (14) (2 marks for the Aux, some students may attempt to separate the contraction “won’t”)
b) It will soon shake your windows (16)
c) It is raging (9) d. Soon, you'll be drenched to the bone (19)
6. Please list the first 6 adverbs in the song. (6)
round, soon, better, again, too, rapidly (1 mark per adverb) 7. What is the name of the first phrase in the clause: “For the times they are changing” (3) ✘ PP / Prepositional Phrase (For the times) NOTE: Students do not need to identify the phrase. Please do not penalize those who did not provide the phrase.