Parts of the Sentence Self Quiz

1. Parts of the SentenceSelf Quiz

2. What should one always find first? Find the verb/verb phrase since all questions revolve around the verb. Find the action, add an equal sign, and/or check for helping verbs that you should know.

3. Identify all the parts of the sentences below. • The summer seashell was fragile yet cracked. • We had already attended a stupendous spring concert with our friends. • I baked my mother a cake for her birthday. Let’s take a deeper look one at a time.

4. 1. The summer seashell was fragile yet cracked. What is the verb? Was What kind of verb and why? It is a linking verb since it links the subject to the complement. One may substitute an equal sign: seashell = fragile yet cracked.

5. 1. The summer seashell was fragile yet cracked. What is the subject? Ask “Who was?” or “What was?” The summer seashell is the complete subject since it includes the simple subject, just the noun seashell, and also the modifiers (adjs. the and summer).

6. 1. The summer seashell was fragile yet cracked. Are their complements? Yes What are they, what kind, and why? Fragile and cracked are Predicate Adjectives since both describe the subject seashell. One knows that because they answer “What kind of seashell?” Fragile and crackedseashell. Also, if one substitutes = for was, the linking verb, seashell = fragile and cracked.

7. 2. We had already attended a stupendous spring concert with our friends. What is the verb? Had attended What kind of verb and why? It is an action verb phrase since had is helping attended show tense. It is an action verb phrase since one can attend. It is transitive since there is a direct object.

8. 2. We had already attended a stupendous spring concert with our friends. What is the subject? Ask “Who had attended?” “What had attended?” We What kind of subject? It is a subject/nominative case pronoun used as a simple subject since there are no modifiers.

9. 2. We had already attended a stupendous spring concert with our friends. Are there any complements? Yes What kind and why? Concert is a direct object since it answers “Attended what? Attended whom?” The complete direct object is a stupendous spring concert since those adjectives, stupendous and spring, modify concert. (“What kind of concert?” Stupendous and spring concert.

10. 3. I baked my mother a cake for her birthday. What is the verb? Baked What kind and why? Action verb since one can bake. Transitive since it has a direct object.

11. I baked my mother a cake for her birthday. What is the subject? I Why? Ask “Who baked?” or “What baked?” and I answers that question.

12. 3. I baked my mother a cake for her birthday. Are there any complements? Yes What kind and why? To find a Direct Object, ask “Baked whom?” or “Baked what?” BE CAREFUL! One did not bake mother, right? Cake answers that question. Well, then, what is mother and why? Mother is an indirect object. It’s a noun between the action verb and the direct object. It answers “Baked to whom/for whom/to what/for what?” Baked for my mother.

13. How did you do? Gaggle any issues, questions, problems to me so I can facilitate your understanding.