Verbs
Sentence Patterns
General Trivia
Parts of Speech
100

This type of verb comes can only be included in a sentence if there is also a direct object.

What is a transitive verb?

100

The sentence pattern for the following sentence: Dominic ate.

What is S VI?

100

The sentence part missing from the following sentence in order to make it's sentence pattern S VT IO DO: She wrote a book.

What is IO?

100

Predicate Adjective

Adjective

200

These verbs are alternatively known as 'auxiliary verbs'.

What are helping verbs?

200

The sentence pattern for the following sentence: She wrote her sister a book.

What is S VT IO DO?

200

The verb listed in the following list that is not a helping verb: do, shall, doing, must, being

What is doing?

200
Intransitive Verb

Verb

300

These aptly named verbs connect the subject of a sentence to either a predicate adjective or a predicate nominative.

What are linking verbs?

300

The sentence pattern for the following sentence: They bought a present for their father.

What is S VT DO OP?

300
The only of the following sentences which cannot be recast: 


Bob did a handstand for the school
Jean wrote a letter to her mother
Billy ran outside for some milk.

What is Billy ran outside for some milk?

300

Subject

Noun

400

This category of verb includes transitive and intransitive.

What are action verbs?

400

The sentence pattern for the following sentence: She will write them a novel.

What is S VH VT IO DO?

400

The other common type of linking verb besides the different forms of 'to be' and seem, become, and appear.

What are the five sense verbs?

400

Predicate Nominative

Noun
500

These eight verbs form the second row of the 23 helping verbs.

What are be, being, been, is, am, are, was, were?

500

The sentence pattern for the following sentence: The gorilla was eating a steak and was grumpy.

What is S VH VT VL PA?

500

The technical name for grammatical order of words in a sentence.

What is syntax?

500

The five senses

Verbs

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