Chapter 5 Quiz Sentence Patterns

What is the main word in the predicate of a sentence?

• Adjective
• Adverb
• Subject
• Verb

What kind of word tells what the subject is?

• Action verb
• Helping verb
• Linking verb
• Sensory word

What kind of word tells what the subject does?

• Action verb
• Helping verb
• Linking verb
• Sensory word

What word can be either an action verb or linking verb?

• Adjective
• Adverb
• Helping verb
• Sensory word

What word renames the subject?

• Predicate noun
• Predicate adjective
• Prepositional phrase
• Sensory word

What word describes the subject?

• Predicate noun
• Predicate adjective
• Prepositional phrase
• Sensory word

Predicate noun or predicate adjective: Jason was happy to be invited to Tim's birthday party.

• Predicate noun
• Predicate adjective

Predicate noun or predicate adjective: Jason was Tim's best friend.

• Predicate noun
• Predicate adjective

What noun receives action from the verb?

• Predicate noun
• Direct object
• Indirect object
• Object of the preposition

Where does a direct object go on a sentence diagram?

• After the subject
• Below the subject
• After the verb
• Below the verb