Prepositions!
Linking or Action
This is highly irregular!
Predicate Nominative
Subject-Verb agreement
100
What follows a preposition in a prepositional phrase?
What is a noun or pronoun
100
What does a linking verb link?
What is the subject with the noun, pronoun, or adjective?
100
The vase had (broke, broken) into many pieces.
What is broken
100
Mr. Jones asked his teacher to give him an "A" for his good looks. What is the predicate nominative? If there isn't one then say "none."
What is none
100
Which is the correct verb usage. The dog (bark, barks) all night long.
What is barks.
200
What are the prepositions in this sentence? The man with his son walked toward us.
What is with and toward
200
List the "to be" linking verbs
What is am, are, is, was, were, be, being, been
200
The man (hung, hanged) out with his childhood friends all day.
What is hung
200
My mother washes dishes daily.
What is "none"
200
The girls and she (drives, drive) the three miles to school each day.
What is drive
300
List 5 prepositions that only have two letters
What is at, by, in, of, on, to, up (any five will do!)
300
Linking or Action? The cinnamon rolls taste heavenly.
What is linking?
300
The ship (sank, sunk) in five minutes.
What is sank
300
Don's favorite sport is basketball.
What is basketball.
300
Either you or John (go, goes) camping each fall.
What is go
400
Bonus! Get this answer and your team wins a trip to the candy can! LIST ON PAPER ALL THE PREPOSITIONS: In Somerset, the starlings roost in the reed beds, which lend them protection from predators. The flocks like to fly in tight formations like shoals of fish and can be set off by the slightest hint of an aerial predator.
What is in, in, from, in, of, by, of
400
Linking or Action? Mom smells the spaghetti before she serves it.
What is linking
400
I had (drank, drunk) three Dr. Peppers in one hour.
What is drunk.
400
The clock chimed twelve and it was time to leave.
What is "none"
400
Maybe the cats and dog (sleeps, sleep) on the black chair.
What is sleep
500
List three prepositions that are made up of three syllables each.
What is underneath, concerning, regarding
500
Linking or Action? The vegetables looked disgusting with black mold and fur on them.
What is linking
500
The light fixture was (broke, broken).
What is broken
500
Our ship is the "Mayberry.".
What is "Mayberry"
500
The can of worms (sit, sits) inside my tackle box.
What is sits
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