EPC424--> EXPANDING VERB PHRASES

Identify the status of the main verb in the sentences.

Congress had made problems for the president since the election.

• Past perfective

• Present perfective

• Past progressive

• Past conditional

Communism seems to be dying around the world.

• Past tense

• Present tense

• Past conditional

• Present conditional

The Weather Bureau had been playing Chicken Little with the coastal residents.

• Past perfect progressive

• Past conditional

• past progressive

• Past perfective

The architecture students should have come up with a functional home design.

• Past conditional

• Present perfect

• Past perfect conditional

• Present perfect conditional

The primatologist may be gambling away her welcome among the chimp family.

• Past progressive conditional

• Present progressive

• Present progressive conditional

• Present conditional

Superman was fighting the Axis during World War II

• Progressive

• Conditional

• Perfective

Suburbanites are pouring their creative juices into Halloween celebrations

• Conditional

• Perfective

• Progressive

• Tense

Identify the main verb of the sentences.

Woody has become a music icon since the sixties.

• since the sixties

• a music icon

• has

• has become

Parasites can make a host organism deathly ill.

• deathly ill

• make

• can make

• a host organism

The dean's committee had been examining our undergraduate program.

• undergraduate program

• had

• had been examining

• examining