Find the Subject
The hot dog was unbelievably delicious.
What is hot dog?
Meg was as quiet as a mouse.
What is simile
She telephoned her uncle last Saturday
What is transitive?
The main character gave the audience a bad first impression.
What is impression (DO), audience (IO)?
I can smell pizza from a mile away.
What is hyperbole?
She smiled at her younger sister across the hall.
Each of the students was thanked appropriately with an A+ on the quiz.
What is each?
The players practiced anyway, and they had a good time.
What is practiced (AV), had (AV)?
Steinbeck's hometown was Salinas, CA.
What is Salinas, CA (PN)?
My dreams are flowers to which you are a bee.
What is metaphor?
With great hopes for a lucrative contract, the writer finally sent the manuscript to a publisher.
The moon turned over to face the day.
What is personification?
A number of experienced hikers will be trekking through the mountain pass shortly.
What is Intranstive?
Other, more complex kinds of grammar rules will be tackled next year.
What is kinds?
As it turns out, the coach had been texting with his friends not coaching kids players.
What is had been texting (AVP), coaching (AV)?
In one myth, the famous artist and inventor Daedalus built the king of Crete a mysterious building known as the Labyrinth.
What is a mysterious building (DO), the King of Crete (IO)?
The clouds were like ice-cream castles in the sky.
What is simile?
Eventually, the show was taken off the air, and it was replaced by a classic comedy.
What is Intransitive and Intransitive? ("was taken" and "was replaced" are intransitive action verb phrases)