Predicate nominative and predicate adjective are what type of complement?
What is subject complement?. They go back and describe more about the subject of a sentence.
100
Name the three types of verbals and tell what each type of verb is disguised or functioning as...
What are participles (adjectives), gerunds (nouns) and infinitives (nouns, adjectives, adverbs).
100
Identify the participial phrase in the following sentence and tell either what it modifies (if it is participial) or what role it is playing in the sentence (if gerund or infinitive):
The debater began his rebuttal on gun control with a fascinating statistic.
What is none. Fascinating is not a verbal here--it is an adjective (not a verb acting as an adjective).
100
At the concert last night, 5SOS played "Amnesia," a rock ballad.
Name the direct object
What is "Amnesia"?
200
This is a verb form functioning as an adjective.
What is a participle?
200
The predicate nominative of the sentence below is:
The silly rabbit is the main attraction of the petting zoo.
What is attraction?
200
Identify the infinitive and state what role it is playing in the sentence (not the part of speech).
To score is the goal in basketball.
What is "to score" and it's the subject?
200
Identify the participial phrase in the following sentence and tell either what it modifies (if it is participial) or what role it is playing in the sentence (if gerund or infinitive):
I saw a picture of the red panda lifting its small paw.
What is participial phrase "lifting its small paw" describing red panda.
200
Name the indirect object(s) in the following sentence.
She spent all her time making baked treats for her children.
What is non (for her children is a prepositional phrase and her children is therefore an object of the preposition).
300
The term for a noun, pronoun or adjective that describes more about a direct object is...
What is an objective complement?
300
Identify the predicate adjective.
The girl became angry in the musty boxing ring.
What is angry?
300
Pick out the verbal(s) in the following sentence.
My aging grandmother is knitting a blue scarf for my birthday.
What is aging (present participle).
300
Identify the participial phrase in the following sentence and tell either what it modifies (if it is participial) or what role it is playing in the sentence (if gerund or infinitive):
Prasied for her work on the human genome, Dr. Smith was awarded the nobel prize.
What is praised for her work on the human genome--participial phrase.
300
What's the objective complement(s) in the sentence below?
The judges chose Hannah, Anna and Lanna 1st,2nd and 3rd runners up respectively.
What is 1st, 2nd and 3rd runners up?
400
Name five verbs that could be either active or linking, depending upon how they are used.
What are appear, become, feel, grow and look?
400
Identify the predicate adjective below:
I looked with confusion at the assembled crowd.
What is none (confusion is an object of the preposition, and assembled is a past participle). Looked is an action verb as it is used here, and therefore you cannot have a predicate adjective.
400
Name any verbal(s), what kind of verbal it is and state what role they play in the sentence.
Next time we go to Florida, we may give parasailing a shot.
What is parasailing, and it's a gerund being the indirect object.
400
Is there a gerund phrase in the following sentence, and if so what is it?
Gathered around the campfire, we told frightening ghost stories all night.
What is none. Gathered around the campfire is a participial phrase modifying we.
400
Name the objective complement(s) in the following sentence.
The superstitious woman crossed her fingers tightly each time she left the house.
What is none. Tightly is an adverb and an objective complement cannot be an adverb.
500
A gerund could be the subject or direct object of a sentence. Name three other purposes a gerund could serve in a sentence and one role it could never serve.
What is indirect object, predicate nominative and object of the preposition? A gerund could never be a predicate adjective.
500
Identify the objective complement in the sentence below and say specifically what type of objective complement it is:
My sister put the stacked magazines in the trunk of the car.
What is stacked, and it is an objective complement that is also a past participle.
500
Name the verbal(s) and what role the verbal(s) is playing in the sentence.
Jerry's phobia is speaking to large crowds.
What is speaking, and it's the predicate nominative.
500
Identify the participial phrase in the following sentence and tell either what it modifies (if it is participial) or what role it is playing in the sentence (if gerund or infinitive):
The dentist noted that Lila Sue is a biting and grinding stress case who has thrown her teeth out of alignment.
What is biting and grinding stress case is a gerund phrase serving as a predicate nominative.
500
Name the verbal(s) and verbal phrase(s) and its function or what it is modifying.
The jungle, strangled with vines, made it difficult for the search party to find signs of life.
What is "strangled with vines"--participial phrase modifying jungle and "to find" infinitive being the object of the preposition.