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A Humbug's Grammar

Exercises - Identifying Subjects and Verbs

Identifying Phrases and Clauses

Identifying Prepositional Phrases

Identifying Infinitives

Identifying Participles and Gerunds

Identifying Independent and Dependent (Subordinate) Clauses

Identifying Sentence Types

Identifying Compound-Complex Sentences and Complex Sentences

Identifying Sentence Types II

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Identifying Subjects and Verbs

Identify the simple subject and simple predicate of the following sentences:

  1. Nobody ever stopped him in the street.
  2. This lunatic, in letting Scrooge's nephew out, had let two other people in.
  3. The sound resounded through the house like thunder.
  4. Every room above, and every cask in the wine-merchant's cellars below, appeared to have a separate peal of echoes of its own.
  5. Suddenly a man, in foreign garments: wonderfully real and distinct to look at, stood outside the window, with an axe stuck in his belt, and leading an ass laden with wood by the bridle.
  6. He rubbed his hands; adjusted his capacious waistcoat; laughed all over himself, from his shows to his organ of benevolence; and called out in a comfortable, oily, rich, fat, jovial voice:
  7. During the whole of this time, Scrooge had acted like a man out of his wits.
  8. There were great, round, pot-bellied baskets of chestnuts.
  9. Then up rose Mrs. Cratchit, Cratchit's wife.
  10. Its tenderness and flavor, size and cheapness, were the themes of universal admiration.
  11. And every man on board, waking or sleeping, good or bad, had had a kinder word for another on that day than on any day in the year; and had shared to some extent in its festivities.
  12. Quiet and dark, beside him stood the Phantom, with its outstretched hand.
  13. The old man raked the fire together with an old stair-rod, and having trimmed his smoky lamp with the stem of his pipe, put it in his mouth again.
  14. Scrooge crept towards it, trembling as he went; and following the finger, read upon the stone of the neglected grave his own name, Ebenezer Scrooge.
  15. "I don't know what to do!"
  16. The Spirits have done it all in one night.
  17. Make up the fires, and buy another coal-scuttle.
  18. He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards.

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Introduction  | Subjects | Verbs | Subject, Predicate | Objects | Phrases | Clauses
The Simple Sentence | The Compound Sentence | The Complex Sentence
The Compound-Complex Sentence | Sentence types in a paragraph
Exercises

 

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Elizabeth Sky-McIlvain 3/27/03