Prepositional Phrases
Identify the prepositional phrase in this sentence:
Soren wants to dress up as Ghost Spider for Halloween.
(for Halloween)
Identify the auxiliary verb in the following sentence:
The thief has taken the money from the bank.
has
Identify the independent clause in this sentence:
Forgetting that I had an early meeting, I took my time getting to work this morning.
I took my time getting to work this morning
Identify the type of syntactic structure:
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness…”
anaphora
Identify the syntactic structure:
"Since concord was lost, friendship was lost; fidelity was lost; liberty was lost—all was lost."
climax
Identify the prepositional phrase(s) in this sentence:
Viggo and Soren played on the swing set until it was time to go to bed.
(on the swing set) and (to bed)
"to go" is an infinitive phrase
Identify the auxiliary verb in the following sentence:
Viggo has lost his sippy cup once again.
has
Identify the dependent clause in the following sentence:
When you finish your homework, please take the dog for a walk.
When you finish your homework
Identify the syntactic structure:
"All for one, and one for all"
chiasmus
Identify the syntactic structure:
In every cry of every Man,
In every infant's cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forg'd manacles I hear
anaphora
Identify the prepositional phrase(s) in the following sentence:
I couldn't wait to go home and put together the puzzle I bought yesterday at Barnes & Nobles.
(at Barnes & Nobles)
Identify the auxiliary verb in the following sentence:
Soren will want to watch a movie when he gets home.
will
Identify the independent clause(s) in the following sentence:
Inspired and energized, Sean solved the case of the missing energy drink.
Sean solved the case of the missing energy drink
Identify the syntactic structure:
“This is the villain among you who deceived you, who cheated you, who meant to betray you completely…”
asyndeton
Identify the syntactic structure:
"He has left the village and mounted the steep
And beneath him, tranquil and broad and deep,
Is the Mystic, meeting the ocean tides"
parallelism
Identify the prepositional phrase(s) in the following sentence:
During Fall Break, I plan to decorate my house for Halloween.
(During Fall Break) and (for Halloween)
Identify the auxiliary verb in the following sentence:
Soren and Viggo are going with us to Milwaukee over break.
Identify the dependent clause(s) in the following sentence:
After we finished the game, we went outside to look at the full moon.
After we finished the game
Identify the syntactic structure:
"cousins by chance; friends by choice"
parallelism
Identify the syntactic structure:
"Without a single grandparent or parent or uncle or aunt at her side, the baby's birth, like most everything else in America, feels somehow haphazard, only half true. As she strokes and suckles and studies her son, she can't help but pity him. She has never known of a person entering the world so alone, so deprived."
parallelism
Taylor Swift went to a football game, and now everyone seems to be talking about it.
(to a football game) and (about it)
Identify the auxiliary verb in the following sentence:
I had forgotten about the birthday party until I saw the calendar.
had
Identify the dependent clause in the following sentence:
We were happy that we had finished the game.
that we had finished the game
Identify the type of syntactic structure:
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
antithesis
Identify the syntactic structure:
"There was a low rumbling of heavy sea-boots among the benches, and a still slighter shuffling of women's shoes, and all was quiet again, and every eye on the preacher."
polysyndeton