Identification of Sentence Elements
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Please "give" me the patience to make it through this exercise!
(A) subject
(b) verb
(c) indirect object
(d) direct object - (b) verb
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So, what's the purpose of this "exercise"?
(a) subject
(b) direct object
(c) object of preposition
(d) predicate nominative - (c) object of preposition
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"Is" this test going to be graded?
(a) linking verb
(b) transitive verb
(c) intransitive verb
(d) gerund - (b) transative verb
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Do you really use "bacon grease" on your hair?
(a) subject
(b) object of preposition
(c) direct object
(d) indirect object - (d) direct object
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This contract offer is an "insult" to us workers.
(a) subject
(b) predicate nominative
(c) object of preposition
(d) appositive - (b) predicate nominative
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"Bonds" drilled two more homers into the center field bleachers.
(a) subject
(b) indirect object
(c) object of preposition
(d) predicate nominative - (a) subject
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Among the many reasons for learning grammar is "its ability to make you a stronger writer".
(a) direct object
(b) gerund phrase
(c) subject
(d) none is correct - (c) subject
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Energy blast, a tofu supplement, takes "terrible".
(a) simple adverb
(b) predicate adjective
(c) appositive
(d) predicate nominative - (d) predicate nominative
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"Building cabinets" gives one a great sense of accomplishment.
(a) subject
(b) verb
(c) predicate adjective
(d) appositive - (a) subject
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Twenty executives "have been indicted" for grand theft.
(a) subject
(b) intransitive verb
(c) prepositional phrase
(D) transitive verb - (b) intransitive verb
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"This" was the most ludicrious thing I've ever heard.
(a) subject
(b) appositive
(c) pronoun
(d) both A and C are correct - (d) both A and C are correct
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Rebecca Jenkins, the "party's nominee", will speak tonight at 8.
(a) subject
(b) appositive of subject
(c) predicate nominative
(d) direct object - (b) apposotive of subject
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This had been the biggest waste "of time" I've had in years.
(a) direct object
(b) gerund phrase
(c) prepositional phrase
(d) adverb - (c) prepostional phrase
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"Who's" coming for dinner?
(a) subject
(b) subject-verb contraction
(c) personal pronoun
(d) false subject - (d) subject-verb agreement
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The gunmen "forced" the customers to lie down.
(a) transitive verb
(b) linking verb
(c) intransitive verb
(d) gerund - A
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Martha "feels" bad about the stock transaction.
(a) transitive verb
(b) linking verb
(c) intransitive verb
(d) verbal - (b) linking verb
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"Won't" you please "make" yourself comfortable?
(a) linking verb
(b) transitive verb
(c) intransitive verb
(d) participial phrase - (c) intranstive verb
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"Whom" did you select as a first-place winner?
(a) subject
(b) object of prepositon
(c) direct object
(d) none is correct - (d) direct object
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Between you and "me", this won't work.
(a) indirect object
(b) direct object
(c) object of prepostion
(d) appositive - (c) object of preposition
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"Does" this pizza "smell" funny to you?
(a) gerund clause
(b) linking verb
(c) trnasitive verb
(d) intransitive verb - (b) linking verb
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Never bother Bluto "when" he's eating!
(a) preposition
(b) adverb
(c) conjunction to introduce independent clause
(d) conjunction to link dependent clause - (d) conjunction to link dependent clause
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Is this suit of armor "yours"?
(a) pronoun
(b) direct object
(c) predicate nominative
(d) both A and C are correct -
(d) both A and (c) are correct
(a) pronoun
(c) predicate nominative -
Her biggest ambition is "to learn how to snowboard".
(a) object of gerund phrase
(b) adverbial clause
(c) indirect object
(d) predicate nominative - (d) predicate nominative
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Running an "election campaign" takes a financial and spirtual toll.
(a) complete subject
(b) object of preposition
(c) indirect object
(d) object of gerund phrase, the true subject - (d) object of gerund phrase, the true subject
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As a menu item, grits and gravy "is" low on the hog.
(a) transitive verb
(b) linking verb
(c) intranstive verb - (b) linking verb
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"This" exercise is starting to make sense.
(a) personal pronoun
(b) complete subject
(C) demonstrative adjective
(d) appositive - (c) demonastrative adjective
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I will "rise" early tomorrow.
(a) complete the linking verb
(b) part of linking verb
(c) complete intranstive verb
(d) part of intransitive verb - (d) part of intransitive verb
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Bill's sister "Angela" thinks her brother Tom is a moron.
(a) predicate nominatve
(b) appositive
(c) noun clause
(d) relflexive pronoun - (d) reflexive pronoun
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"Signaling for help with all of his might."
(a) sentence fragment
(b) run-on sentence
(c) noun clause
(d) simple sentence - (a) sentence fragment
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"Stymied by the puzzle", Jimmy turned on the television.
(a) adverbial phrase
(b) present participial phrase
(c) gerund phrase
(d) past participial phrase - (d) past participial phrase