Analyze the sentence to choose the correct answer for each space.
those books are responsible for my earning an "a" on the paper because they provided just enough information.
identify a demonstrative pronoun:
identify a verbal:
what type of verbal is it?
identify the personal pronoun that modifies the verbal:

Demonstrative Pronoun: "These"

Verbal: "earning"

Type of verbal: "gerund"

Personal pronoun: "my"

Explanation:

Demonstrative Pronouns: These are the pronouns which point to something specific within a sentence

Examples: this, that, these, those, such, none, neither.

Verbals: These are words made from verbs but functioning NOT as verbs but as something else (nouns, adjectives, or adverbs).

Examples: In the sentences; cooking requires a lot of skill, he is a learned man, she likes to eat mangoes, cooking (gerund), learned (participle), and to eat (infinitive) are verbals.

Gerund verbal: These are verbals formed by adding -ing after the verbs and functioning as noun. "earning" is acting as a noun; and hence is a gerund.

The personal pronoun "my" is used modifying gerund (noun) "earning"

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)