Modified by the Verbal
The word this verbal or verbal phrase modifies:
Covered in worms, Medusa brought shame upon her family because she had wild hair.
What is Medusa?
The kind of sentence this is (complexity):
Through old journals, we have learned much about the pioneers, the early Americans.
What is simple?
This sentence has (or these sentences have) an infinitive phrase?
A. Records, cracked and broken, were in the old trunk in the attic.
B. After finishing the test, we went to the soda shop to grab a milkshake.
C. Joe was so hungry that he went to town on his burger as soon as it was served.
D. To the hills is where we ran as we raced the advancing fire.
What is B?
The function the word happy plays in this sentence:
People appear happy with the service.
What is Predicate Adjective?
Answer the verbal type, position in the sentence (noun - IO, PN, OP, DO, S; adjective; or adverb); and, if relevant, the word it modifies:
The kids running past were frightened by the animals.
What is participial phrase, adjective, kids?
The word this verbal or verbal phrase modifies:
When the journey ended, these people worked hard to make homes for their families.
What is hard?
The number of phrases this sentence has:
Through old journals, we have learned much about the pioneers, the early Americans.
What is 4?
This sentence has (or these sentences have) a gerund or gerund phrase:
A. Now the hidden odorophonics were beginning to blow a wind of odor at the two people in the middle of the baked veldtland.
B. George Hadley put his hand up to shield off the burning light from his squinted eyes.
C.Nothing over there I can see but cleaned bone, and the vultures dropping for what’s left.
D. I’ve taken a few machines from the house and threatened them, a month ago, with closing up the nursery unless they did their homework.
What is D?
The underlined word below is this kind of word:
The employees are fining the company based on findings from their investigation.
What is gerund serving as the object of the preposition?
Answer the verbal type, position in the sentence (noun - IO, PN, OP, DO, S; adjective; or adverb); and, if relevant, the word it modifies:
Give teaching a try.
What is gerund, Indirect Object?
The word this verbal or verbal phrase modifies:
She stood waiting by the phone for a call that never came.
What is stood?
The underlined word serves this function in the sentence below:
Is this it?
What is a predicate nominative?
This sentence contains (or these sentences contain) a participial phrase:
A. I would also like to go to Brazil.
B. Some of the movies directed by Hitchcock are “Dial M for Murder,” “Rear Window,” and “The Birds.”
C. Since I was five, I have read known books in bed at night.
D. Their approach sensitized a switch somewhere, and the nursery light flicked on when they came within ten feet of it.
What are B and C?
This is the underlined word's function in the sentence below:
She gave the instrument a tuning before starting to play it.
What is Indirect Object?
Answer the verbal type, position in the sentence (noun - IO, PN, OP, DO, S; adjective; or adverb); and, if relevant, the word it modifies:
Michael, flushed from crying, decided to leave his girlfriend Angela.
What is Participial , Adjective, Michael?
The word this verbal or verbal phrase modifies:
Annoyed by the constant rain, the windows were closed by the rain.
What is windows?
This sentence's sentence type (complexity) is this:
When you left to fight this war, did you really think that you would return unscathed?
What is complex?
This sentence has (or these sentences have) an infinitive phrase:
A. Now we’re going to really start living.
B. Antoine gave a charm to his grandmother engraved with family names.
C. I am going to the game with Jackson, who is very tall for his age.
D. And now you come along and want to shut it off.
What are A and D?
Daily Double: This question is worth double its face value to every group who answers it correctly in the allotted time.
This form of punctuation is needed when a participial phrase follows a noun at the end of a sentence.
What is none?
Daily Double! This question is worth double its value.
Answer the verbal type, position in the sentence (noun - IO, PN, OP, DO, S; adjective; or adverb); and, if relevant, the word it modifies:
The crowd grew quiet to hear the speaker.
What is infinitive, adverb (why?), quiet?
The word this verbal or verbal phrase modifies:
Todd's ability to speak transparently without offending anyone is a gift.
What is ability?
This underlined verb's verb type is:
As Northern California burns, winemakers throughout the region battle feverishly to save their crops.
What is intransitive?
This sentence has (or these sentences have) a gerund or gerund phrase:
A. He was a regular man from a regular city in the United States.
B. Waiting on the bus, the time went by slowly.
C. The weather, of course, plays a significant role in the growing of a crop.
D. Turning the light on, Haley walks into the room.
What is C?
This sentence's type (complexity) is:
We thought that his scarf would be a lost cause, but we noticed some fabric poking out of his locker, where it emerged ready to keep his neck warm.
What is compound-complex?
Answer the verbal type, position in the sentence (noun - IO, PN, OP, DO, S; adjective; or adverb); and, if relevant, the word it modifies:
People supported Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers by boycotting grapes.
What is gerund, O.P.?