Nouns, Pronouns, Adj.
The common noun in the following sentence is:
Rebecca Motte was a great patriot.
What is patriot?
The first word in the preposition song is:
What is about?
The action verb in the following sentence is:
Mix the ingredients slowly.
What is Mix?
Identify the parts of speech a direct object is.
What are nouns or pronouns?
Identify the following words as a subordinate or independent clause.
If you have never had Caribbean food, then you are in for a treat.
What is a subordinate clause?
Identify the abstract noun in the following sentence:
The people in Project Jonah find fulfillment in helping stranded mammals.
What is fulfillment?
Identify the preposition in the following sentence:
Why does Ralph always sit beside the door?
What is beside?
Identify the italicized verb as either action or linking:
They looked handsome in the clothes.
What is linking?
Identify the direct object in the following sentence:
A swimmer in training may swim five or six miles a day.
What is miles?
Identify the italicized clause as independent or subordinate:
As soon as we pay for these items, let's take them home.
What is independent?
Identify the reflexive pronoun in the following sentence:
The skunk can easily protect itself from others.
What is itself?
Identify the compound preposition in the following sentence:
In front of the book case was a large table.
What is in front of?
Identify the italicized verb as transitive or intransitive:
Last night we ate on the patio.
What is intransitive?
Identify the indirect object in the following sentence:
The ship's captain gave the crew orders.
What is crew?
Identify the italicized clause as adverb or adjective:
A snorkel is a hollow tube that lets a diver breathe underwater.
What is an adjective clause?
Identify the relative pronoun in the sentence:
I believe the skunk is the animal that most people want to avoid.
What is that?
Identify the prepositional phrase in the following sentence:
It happened during the last examination.
What is during the last examination?
Identify the adverb in the following sentence:
Later, the Cherokees were forced by the United States government to leave their land.
What is later?
Identify the italicized word as a direct or indirect object:
The usher found us seats near the stage.
What is a direct object?
Identify the italicized clause as either an adverb or adjective clause:
The team's mascot, which is a horse, is called Renegade.
What is an adjective clause?
Identify the at least five adjectives in the following sentence:
This quiet, private walk always makes me feel tired but also happy.
What are this, quiet, private, tired, happy?
Identify all the prepositional phrases in the following sentence:
Mr. Takai used tofu in the recipe instead of chicken.
What are in the recipe and instead of chicken?
Identify the italicized word as either a preposition or adverb:
In fact, among sailors, the place is known as Ship-Trap Island.
What is a preposition?
Identify the italicized word as a direct or indirect object:
The Nobel Foundation awarded Octavio Paz the Nobel Prize in literature.
What is an indirect object?
Identify the adverb clause in the following sentence:
The Chinese were about to be attacked by an enemy army when an advisor to the emperor came up with a plan.
What is when an advisor to the emperor came up with a plan?