Subjects
The subject of this sentence: Charles Dickens wrote many great novels during his lifetime.
What is Charles Dickens?
The predicate in the following sentence: Washington Irving read his works to the frontier audience.
What is read?
The direct object of the following sentence: The actors memorize scripts.
What is scripts?
The adjective in the following sentence: Choral singers are dedicated to their work.
What is choral?
William Shakespeare was a great playwright and poet.
What is active?
The subject of this sentence: His first novel was Pickwick Papers.
What is novel?
The predicate of the following sentence: Washington Irving's pen name was Diedrich Knickerbocker.
What is was?
The direct object of the following sentence: The orchestra leader brings the musicians the music.
What is the music?
The adverb in the following sentence: People await major concerts eagerly.
What is eagerly?
A letter will be written by her.
What is passive voice?
The subject of the following sentence: Please read chapter 1 of a A Tale of Two Cities tonight.
What is (you)?
The predicate of the following sentence: Tell me about Irving's travels in the West.
What is tell?
The indirect object of the following sentence: The orchestra leader brings the musicians the music.
What is musicians?
What are modifiers (you can't use the word "modify" in the definition)? What are the two modifiers that we have discussed? What do each modify?
This answer does not have to be in the form of a question.
Modifiers provide description. The two that we have discussed are adjectives and adverbs.
Adjectives describe nouns and pronouns. Adverbs describe verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs.
During the intermission, our band played several numbers.
What is active voice?
Is there a direct object and/or an indirect object? If so, what is it?:
The play's producer sent the local newspaper fifteen photographs of the event.
What is local newspaper? (direct object)