Prep Phrases
This part of speech always begins a prepositional phrase.
What is a preposition?
This part of the sentence tells who or what the sentence is about.
What is the subject?
This object receives the action of a transitive verb directly.
What is a direct object?
This type of subject complement is a noun or pronoun that renames the subject.
What is a predicate nominative?
This character says the famous last words, "Et tu, Brute?"
Who is Julius Caesar?
In the phrase "under the bridge," this word functions as the object of the preposition.
What is bridge?
This part of the sentence contains the verb and tells what the subject does or is.
What is the predicate?
This object tells to whom or for whom the action of the verb is done.
What is an indirect object?
This type of subject complement is an adjective that describes the subject.
What is a predicate adjective?
This character is the lead conspirator who uses flattery and forged letters to trick Brutus into the plot.
Who is Cassius?
Identify the prepositional phrase in this sentence: "The secret was hidden behind the old velvet curtain."
What is "behind the old velvet curtain"?
This is the "understood" subject in a command like "Sit down!
What is "you"?
"I gave her the book," identify the direct object.
What is book?
Subject complements (PNs and PAs) only follow this specific category of verbs.
What are linking verbs?
This character warns Caesar to "Beware the Ides of March."
Who is the Soothsayer?
This is the term for a noun or pronoun that follows a preposition to complete the phrase.
What is the object of the preposition?
In the sentence "The exhausted, muddy hikers finally reached the summit," identify the simple subject.
What is hikers?
"I gave her the book," identify the indirect object.
What is her?
"The pizza smells delicious," "delicious" is this specific part of the sentence.
What is a predicate adjective?
This is Caesar’s wife, who begs him to stay home after having nightmares about his statue bleeding.
Who is Calpurnia?
True or False: A prepositional phrase can contain the main subject of a sentence.
What is False? (The subject is never inside a prepositional phrase).
A subject consisting of two or more nouns joined by "and" or "or" is called this.
What is a compound subject?
An indirect object can only exist in a sentence if the sentence also contains one of these.
What is a direct object?
"Brutus is an honorable man," "man" is this specific part of the sentence.
What is a predicate nominative?
During his funeral oration, Antony repeatedly calls the conspirators this ironic adjective.
What is "honorable"?