Show:
Find the Subject
Find the Verb or Verb Phrase - Action or Linking
Find the Complements - PA, PN, DO, IO
Figurative Language
Transitivity
100

The hot dog was unbelievably delicious.

What is hot dog? 

100
After milling about for some time, the soccer players began their warm up.
What is began (AV)?
100
The new television show seemed boring at first.
What is boring (PA)?
100

Meg was as quiet as a mouse.

What is simile

100

She telephoned her uncle last Saturday

What is transitive? 

200
During the quiz review, six brilliant students brought the teacher a snack.
What is students?
200
The coach had seemed distracted during practice.
What is had seemed (LVP)?
200

The main character gave the audience a bad first impression.

What is impression (DO), audience (IO)?

200

I can smell pizza from a mile away.

What is hyperbole?

200

She smiled at her younger sister across the hall.

What is Intransitive? 
300

Each of the students was thanked appropriately with an A+ on the quiz.

What is each? 

300

The players practiced anyway, and they had a good time.

What is practiced (AV), had (AV)?

300

Steinbeck's hometown was Salinas, CA.

What is Salinas, CA (PN)?

300

My dreams are flowers to which you are a bee.

What is metaphor?

300

With great hopes for a lucrative contract, the writer finally sent the manuscript to a publisher.

What is Transitive? 
400
The annoyance of studying disappears when you do well on a quiz.
What is annoyance?
400
The coach remained aloof until the end of the day.
What is remained (LV)?
400
Many televisions critics gave the show two thumbs down.
What is thumbs (DO), show (IO)?
400

The moon turned over to face the day.

What is personification?

400

A number of experienced hikers will be trekking through the mountain pass shortly.

What is Intranstive?

500

Other, more complex kinds of grammar rules will be tackled next year.

What is kinds? 

500

As it turns out, the coach had been texting with his friends not coaching kids players.

What is had been texting (AVP), coaching (AV)?

500

In one myth, the famous artist and inventor Daedalus built the king of Crete a mysterious building known as the Labyrinth.

What is a mysterious building (DO), the King of Crete (IO)? 

500

The clouds were like ice-cream castles in the sky.

What is simile? 

500

Eventually, the show was taken off the air, and it was replaced by a classic comedy.

What is Intransitive and Intransitive? ("was taken" and "was replaced" are intransitive action verb phrases)