Find The Different Elements In A Sentence: Simple Subject, Verb, Prepositional Phrases.
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Find the different elements in a sentence: Simple Subject, verb, propositional phrases.
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- 1.What is the subject of this sentence: While touring the country, Alex and his family spent much of their time taking photographs of unusual natural landmarks.
- A.
Country
- B.
Alex
- C.
Family
- D.
Natural landmarks
- E.
Alex and his family
- 2.What is the verb of the sentence: While touring the country, Alex and his family spent much of their time taking photographs of unusual natural landmarks.
- A.
Touring
- B.
Spent
- C.
Taking
- D.
Unusual
- 3.Which of the following is a prepositional phrase in this sentence? While touring the country, Alex and his family spent much of their time taking photographs of unusual natural landmarks.
- A.
While touring the country
- B.
Time taking photographs
- C.
Much of their
- D.
Of unusual natural landmarks
- E.
Natural landmarks
- 4.What is the subject of this sentence: Georgina wrote an angry letter to her friend Helen.
- A.
Georgina
- B.
Angry
- C.
Letter
- D.
Friend
- E.
Helen
- 5.What is the verb of the sentence: Georgina wrote an angry letter to her friend Helen.
- A.
Wrote
- B.
Angry
- C.
Letter
- D.
To
- E.
Friend
- 6.Which of the following is a prepositional phrase in this sentence? Georgina wrote an angry letter to her friend Helen.
- A.
Georgina wrote
- B.
An angry letter
- C.
To
- D.
Letter to her
- E.
To her friend Helen
- 7.What is the subject of this sentence: In a the refrigerator, there were only moldy hotdogs left over from the BBQ on Memorial Day in May.
- A.
Refrigerator
- B.
There
- C.
Moldy
- D.
Hotdogs
- E.
BBQ
- 8.What is the verb of the sentence: In a the refrigerator, there were only moldy hotdogs left over from the BBQ on Memorial Day in May.
- A.
In
- B.
Were
- C.
Left
- D.
Left over
- E.
BBQ
- 9.Which of the following is NOT a prepositional phrase in this sentence? In a the refrigerator, there were only moldy hotdogs left over from the BBQ on Memorial Day in May.
- A.
In a the refrigerator
- B.
Only moldy hotdogs
- C.
From the BBQ
- D.
On Memorial Day
- E.
In May
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