Prepositions
How many prepositional phrases are in this sentence:
"After a long day with many setbacks, Kyle the lawyer left his office for another donut."
Three
Find the direct object:
"Carson passed the ball to Ben."
"ball"
Which of these is not a real tense:
past participle, future interrogative, or present progressive
"future interrogative"
Eve and Maddi (past of buy) dresses together last month.
"bought"
Find the predicate in this statement:
"Someone did not contribute to this lesson."
"Did not contribute to this lesson."
Find the prepositional phrase:
"Dylan created a remarkable poster concerning smoking."
"Concerning smoking."
Find the direct object:
"Lilly sent her newest rap to Lauren."
"rap"
What is the verb tense in this sentence?
"Graysen had asked Kennedy for mints thirty-seven times before she slapped him."
past perfect
Becca (future of went) to Starbucks before school.
"will go"
List three being verbs:
am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been
What word does the prepositional phrase in this sentence begin with?
"Keelie ate key lime pie with a parakeet."
"with"
Find the indirect object:
"Zach showed the Minecraft diamonds to Kyle ."
"Kyle"
What is the tense?
"Aidan will have cycled the Tour de France by Monday."
future perfect
Marcus has (sing/sang/sung) karaoke before.
"sung"
Where does the apostrophe in a contraction go?
It goes where the letter(s) is/are missing.
EXAMPLE: "Where is" becomes "where's" because the apostrophe takes the place of the "e" and "i".
Daily Double:
How many of these words are prepositions?
"Around, at, is, are, over, been, have, behind, not."
Four
Find the indirect object:
"Spencer forgot to turn his agenda in to Mrs. McGhee."
"Mrs. McGhee"
What is the tense of the verb phrase in this sentence?
JT Big Boy is purchasing new ballet slippers for the dance.
present progressive
The dragon was (slay/slayed/slain) at the hands of Jewel.
"slain"
Daily Double:
How many microns are contained within a negative microbe in the sun when attached to two molecules of chloroform pointing south on the winter solstice?
Forty-thousand, nine hundred and thirty-three. (jk)
List twenty prepositions:
We'll get back to you.
Daily double-- Find the subject in this phrase:
"How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"
"Woodchuck"
True or False: In the sentence "Tanner cooked turtle soup," the verb/verb phrase is in the past perfect tense.
False.
If this were to be in the past perfect tense, it would read, "Tanner had cooked turtle soup." Instead, the word "cooked" is a past participle verb.
By the end of the month, Kylie Seboricus (past perfect of will have) twenty-nine charges in Miami and Darke Counties for Grand Theft Auto.
"will have had"
List every verb tense that was covered in the Khan Academy video lessons--if you didn't watch them, you know who you are.
Past simple, present simple, future simple, past progressive, present progressive, future progressive, past perfect, present perfect, future perfect, past participle, and present participle.