Subjects
What is the subject in the following sentence?
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What is a verb?
(Hint: there are 2 things a verb does in a sentence)
A part of speech that expresses an action or state of being.
What two elements make up a prepositional phrase?
A preposition and the object of the preposition.
In the sentence "She is running a marathon," what is the helping verb?
Answer: Is
What does "compound" mean?
more than 1
Define what a subject is in a sentence.
Answer:
The part of a sentence that tells who or what the sentence is about
What is the verb in the sentence "she runs every morning around the pond at the park"?
Answer:
Runs
What are the prepositional phrases in the sentence:
"Little Red Hood was on her way to her grandmother's house"?
Answer"
"on her way" and "to her grandmother's house"
Which helping verb is used in the sentence "They have finished their homework"?
have
Identify the compound subjects in the sentence: "Molly and her little brother are going to the store to get some ice cream.
Molly, brother
What is the subject in the sentence "The cat slept on the couch by the window"?
Answer:
Cat
What are the verbs in the sentence: "George Lucas produced the movie Star Wars and is 77 years old."
Produced, is
What is the object of the preposition in the sentence "The book on the table is mine"?
Answer:
Table
In the sentence "The project will be completed by next week," identify the two helping verbs.
What is a compound verb, and provide an example?
Answer: A compound verb consists of two or more verbs that share the same subject.
Example: "She will run and swim tomorrow."
What is the subject in the following sentence?
The cake has been cooked by my sister
Cake
What is the verb phrase in the sentence: "May the boy have a small scoop of ice cream?"
May have
What are 3 things that prepositions can show in a sentence?
1. The position of where something is
2. When something is happening
3. Reveals something about a noun
In an interrogative sentence, where is a helping verb placed?
At the beginning of the sentence.
In the compound noun "toothpaste," which two words are combined to form the compound?
Answer: "Tooth" and "paste."
What is the subject in "Tom and Jerry chased each other around the park"?
Tom, Jerry
Is going
List the prepositional phrases in the following sentences: "The students in the institute work hard for their classes." Label the preposition and the object of the preposition.
in the institute
(preposition: "in") (object: "institute")
for their classes
(preposition: "for") (object: "classes")
List all the helping verbs in order.
do, does, did,
may, might, must,
should, would, could
shall, will, can
is, am, are, was, were, be, being, been
In the sentence: "The kids went with their mom and dad to the movie theater", identify the compound objects of the preposition.
mom, dad