Linking Verbs
This is what a linking verb does in sentence.
What is connects the subject of a sentence with a noun or adjective in the predicate?
This is what an adverb does in a sentence.
What is modify a verb, adjective or another adverb?
This what an adjective does in a sentence.
What is describe or modify a noun or pronoun?
This is the job of a conjunction in a sentence.
What is to connect words in the sentence?
This is the purpose of a preposition in a sentence.
What is to be a word that relates a noun or pronoun to another word in the sentence?
Find the linking verb and noun in the following sentence:
Juana Ortiz was the director.
What is was and director?
Find the adverb and the word it modifies in the sentence:
People handle old violins carefully.
What is carefully and handle?
Find the article in the following sentence:
A beautiful picture hangs in our entryway.
What is "a"
Find the conjunction in the following sentence:
Tom plays soccer, but his sister prefers softball.
What is but?
Under the books on the desk, you will find an envelope with your name on it.
What is "under the books on the desk"?
Find the linking verb and the adjective in the following sentence:
Ms. Ortiz is imaginative.
What is is and imaginative?
Find the adverb and the word it modifies in the following:
I am almost always on time to school.
Find the adjectives and words they modify in the following:
The Komodo dragon, an endangered lizard, has a poisonous bite.
What is Komodo-dragon, endangered-lizard, and poisonous-bite?
Find the correlating conjunction in the following:
Neither Brian nor the twins speak Spanish.
What is neither, nor?
Find the preposition in the following:
Until yesterday I had never been inside the museum without my parents.
What is until?
Find the linking verb and adjective:
The food smells delicious.
What is smells and delicious?
Find the adverb and the word it modifies in the following:
We immediately got to work after the bell rang.
What is immediately and got?
Find the articles in the following sentence:
Rafael attends a university in a small town about an hour from here.
What is a, a, and an?
These are 3 examples of conjunctions.
(FANBOYS)
What is for, and, but, or, nor, yet, so?
Find the preposition in the following:
Yasmin will visit Trinidad instead of Jamaica.
What is instead of?
Find the linking verb and noun
Her father is a doctor.
What is is and doctor?
Find the adverb clause and what it modifies in the following:
Carson is younger than I am.
What is "than I am" and younger?
Find the adjectives and words they modify in the following:
The famous athlete visited the sick children at the local hospital after the big game.
What is famous-athlete, sick-children, local-hospital, big-game?
Find the correlating conjunction in the following:
Examples of great architecture exist in both New York and Paris.
What is both and and?
Find the prepositional phrase in the following:
Since last week, we have planted flowers along the fence and behind the house.
What is since last week?