Subject and Predicate

In the following sentences, do the following:

Circle the simple predicate
Underline the simple subject
Put brackets around the complete subject and parentheses around the complete predicate

1. [That guy from Spanish class] (tripped on his shoelace and knocked me over.)
2. (Someday), [I] (will drive a fast car on the Utah salt flats.)
3. (Before evening), [Amy and her group] (will need ten more reams of paper).
4. [The Matrix Revolutions, the third installment of the Matrix Trilogy], (is an
allegory to the New Testament of the Bible.)
5. (Four score and seven years ago), [our fathers] (brought forth on this continent
a new nation) Gettysburg Address
Subject-Verb Agreement
In the following sentences, do the following:
Identify whether the subject and verb agree. If they agree, youre done
If they do not agree, draw a line through the word or words that need to change for the
subject and verb to agree and rewrite them above (assume that you can only change the
grammatical elements of the sentence and not the meaning of the sentence)
Ex.

has

He have your phone charger.

go

1. Alex, Jessie, and Sarah goes to the store together every Saturday.
is

2. Either Jessie or Alex are going to buy a toaster that burns the Suns logo onto
bread.
has

3. One of my friends have one of those weird hairless dogs.

4. Sam and her sisters are forming a band together.
lasts

5. The movie, with all its previews, last 95 minutes.

6. Bobs pants are ripped.

7. Neither answer is acceptable.

8. The door or the windows are always open.
Parts of Clauses
Identify these parts of the clause in the following sentences:
Subject (S)
Verb (V) (itd be good practice to categorize the verb too, but that wont be on the quiz)
direct object (DO)
indirect object (IO)
object of a preposition (OP)
predicate nominative (PN)
predicate adjective (PA)
modifiers including adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases (Adj., Adv.)
other parts of speech (Prep., Conj., Int.)
Ex.

adj.

DO

ate

donut
Adj.

S V

V IO adj. adj.

DO

Prep. Adj. OP

1. I will tell you a true* story about my life.

S

adj. PN adv.

2. Cousin Jimmy became a frog once.

Adv.
S V adj. adv.

Adj.

PN

Prep. OP

3. It was a pretty weird dream for him.

S

IO adj.

DO

4. Someone pass me a screwdriver!

Adv.
S

V adv. Adv. Adj. Prep. Adj.

OP

Adj.
Prep. Adj. OP

5. Karen is far too angry about that whoopee cushion on her chair.
Adj.

PA

6. The food smells funny.

Adj.

adv.

Adv.

PA

7. *That story is actually completely false.

S V adv. V

adj.

DO

8. I do not have a Cousin Jimmy.

Adv.

Adv. S V

V adj.

DO

9. Someday, maybe I will have a Cousin Jimmy.

S V

DO adv.

10. I doubt it, though.

Pronoun Case

Ex.

Write the PNGC for the pronoun you need to replace the underlined noun.
Replace the underlined word with the correct pronoun. Use the chart you copied into your
composition notebook for reference.
her
I dont understand why he hates Tinas guts. (3, S, F, P adj.)
him

1. Do not throw things at your brother! (3, S, M, O)

I

2. [The speaker] want to eat candy and poop emeralds; (1, S, M/F, N)
you

3. the difference between [person speaker is speaking to] and me is that Im

halfway successful. Dogbert from Dilbert comic strip (2, S, M/F, O)
your

4. Hey! Keep [belonging to the people being spoken to] wrists straight or you will
hurt yourselves! (2, P, M/F, P adj.)
yours

5. Which one is [the one belonging to the speaker]? (1, S, M/F, P noun)
He

6. Paul should be more careful. (3, S, M, N)

They

7. Jumanji and Zathura are scarier than most kids movies. (3, P, N, N)

It

8. That bird needs to stop chirping at four in the morning! (3, S, N, N)

Its

9. [The alarm clocks] hour hand is broken and will fall behind an hour sometimes.
(3, S, N, P adj.)
it

10. You probably havent heard of [something a hipster is being all smug for
knowing about]. (3, S, N, O)