Identify the type of the simple predicate: AT& DO, H, AI, L
The bad guy support group had met every Thursday night.
What is had - helping and met - AI
100
Identify the main clause in the following sentence:
Carl left home so that he could go to work.
What is "so that he could go to work" ?
100
How many simple subjects are there in the following sentence: All of the cars sped down the road at once.
What is 1 - all ?
100
List all 4 the tenses and their three types:
What are simple past, present, future; perfect past, present, and future, Progressive past, present, and future; perfect progressive past, present, and future ?
200
Identify the type of verbal and its function in this sentence:
To paint a painting requires talent and hours of focus.
What is "to paint a painting" - infinitive - noun / subject ?
200
Identify the simple predicate in this sentence: Joker, Plankton, and Darth Vader were angered by the lack of attention by them by the group leader.
What is "were" - H and "angered" - AI ?
200
Is the starred clause essential or non-essential?
Witnesses *that saw the crime* were questioned by the police for a description.
What is essential?
200
Identify the simple and complete predicate:
To win the race meant going faster than all the other cars in the race.
What is "meant going faster than all the other cars in the race"?
200
Tell me the tense:
have + past tense verb : have swallowed poison
What is present perfect ?
300
Identify any verbals and tell their function in the sentence:
Salvador Dali's melting clocks are part of a painting called "The Persistence of Memory".
What are "melting clocks" - participle / adj and painting - gerund / noun
300
Identify the type of simple predicate:
Sauron, Smaug, and Saruman's Orcs refused coffee and thought they were better than everyone else.
What is refused - AT - coffee and thought - AT - better?
300
Which clause would be a subordinate / non-essential clause in this sentence: Mary wore a lamb's wool coat.
a. before she became a shepard
b. while walking through a terrible blizzard
c. who had a shorn sheep
What is C?
300
Identify the complete subject and predicate:
Hungry cars drinking motor oil stood around and discussed their home lives.
What are "Hungry cars drinking motor oil" - subj and "stood around and discussed their home lives" - pred. ?
300
Tell me the tense:
Bananas will have been in charge for 50 years.
What is future perfect progressive?
400
Identify any verbals and their function:
Painters in the Renaissance often chose to paint about religious themes.
What is "to paint about religious themes" - infinitive / noun or direct object ?
400
Identify the predicate and its type:
Lex Luther and Megatron went-off in a corner and horded the muffins for themselves.
What is went-off - AI and horded - AT - muffins ?
400
What punctuation sets a non-essential, subordinate clause apart from an independent clause?
What are commas?
400
Identify the simple subject and complete subject:
All the tall people, but none of the short people, were asked to go hug a cactus!
What is SS - people; CS - "all the tall people, but none of the short people"
400
Identify the tense:
He had torn his pants and lost his wallet when he fell off his horse.
What is past perfect ?
500
Identify any verbals and their function:
Mona Lisa hanging in the Louvre has been vandalized and criticized to lower her selling value in the art world.
What is "hanging in the Louvre" - participle / adj; to lower - infinitive - adv; selling value - gerund - noun
500
Identify the simple predicate and tell what type:
Dracula and Frankenstein, but not The Mummy, appeared to be the oldest in the group and grew wary of the other's immaturity!
What are appeared - AI and grew - L
500
Is there a subordinate clause in this sentence and what is it?
Whichever cow was tipped fell over and mood ridiculously.
What is yes - whichever cow was tipped?
500
What order would these sentence parts go in?
- walking through the woods
- were lost
- silly children
- and hungry
- without their teacher who abandoned them
What is Silly children walking through the woods were lost and hungry without their teacher who abandoned them!
500
Identify the tense:
John is building a deck on the back of the house.