A+ Grade
What is the group of words that is the topic and focus of the sentence?
- correct answer Subject.
This part of a sentence gives information about the subject.
- correct answer Predicate.
What is "in their waters" in the following sentence? (Piranhas attack fish or animals in their wateres.)
- correct answer Modifier.
__________ may be single words or verb phrases.
- correct answer Verbs.
T or F: "Will have bitten" is an example of a verb phrase.
- correct answer True.
T or F: Intransitive verbs take objects.
- correct answer False
This part of speech receives the action of a transitive verb.
- correct answer Direct object.
This part of speech usually answers the question "what?" or "whom?" about the subject and verb.
- correct answer Direct object.
, This part of speech usually answers the question "to whom?" or "for whom?" about the Subject and
Verb.
- correct answer Indirect object.
_____________ occur in the predicate of the sentence following a "to be" or other linking verb.
- correct answer Comlements.
Subject complements rename or describe the __________. Object complements rename or describe the
____________.
- correct answer subject; object
Carlos is upset. (What is "upset" in the sentence?)
- correct answer subject complement
Carlos named one piranha Bucktooth. (What is "piranha" in the sentence?)
- correct answer object complement
_____________ describe or limit a subject, verb, object, or complement.
- correct answer modifiers
Piranhas have a nasty disposition. (What is "nasty" in the sentence?)
- correct answer modifier
This word literally means "a joining together."
- correct answer conjunction
_______________ join equal sentence elements. (and, but, or, yet, for, nor, so)
- correct answer Coordinating conjunctions
____________ also join equal sentence elements. (both...and, either....or)
- correct answer Correlative conjunctions