Order of sentence elements

What does SVO mean and why do you need to know it?

An operator can best be remembered as

• subject

• first helping verb

• main verb

• direct object

True or False: There is no difference between a direct object and an indirect object.

• True

• False

Explain notionally or syntactically what the DO or what the IO is.

In the poem "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll, in the lines

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

gyre and gimble are most likely what part of speech?

• nouns

• adjectives

• verbs

• prepositions

In the poem "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll, in the lines

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

toves is most likely what part of speech?

• noun

• adjective

• verb

• preposition

In the poem "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll, in the lines

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

slithy is most likely what part of speech?

• noun

• adjective

• verb

• preposition

In the poem "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll, in the lines

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

wabe is most likely what part of speech?

• noun

• adjective

• verb

• preposition

In "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll, in the lines:

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

All mimsy were the borogoves,

And the mome raths outgrabe.

Which of the following do you think describes And the mome raths outgrabe?

• And-conj, the-determiner, mome-S, raths-V, outgrabe -O

• And-conj, the-determiner, mome-adj, raths-S, outgrabe -V

• And-conj, the-determiner, mome-adv, raths-adj, outgrabe -S

• Other- explain in chat

In "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll, in the lines:

He took his vorpal sword in hand;

Long time the manxome foe he sought—

Which of the following do you think describes Long time the manxome foe he sought---?

• Long time-adv, the-det, manxome-S, foe-prep, sought-O of prep

• Long time-adv, the-det, manxome-adj, foe-S, he-IO, sought-V

• Long time-adv, the-det, manxome-adj, foe-DO, he-S, sought-V

• Other- explain in chat