Rigorous Verbs

Jan came to school.

Write the verb.

"...where the streets sloped down to the stream and the stream flowed quietly under the bridge..."

Write the 2 different verbs in this sentence.

.... I, as if the spectacles cases, letters and writing materials that had evidently lain untouched for months in the soft north light had once been my spectacle cases, my letters and my writing materials.”

Write the subject.

"The streets are paved now, and the telephone and electric companies are cutting down more and more of the shade trees–the water oaks, the maples and locusts and elms–...."

Write 2 verbs in this sentence.

“She had said I’m tired of begging God to overthrow my son, ....

How many verbs in the sentence?

“She had said I’m tired of begging God to overthrow my son, because all this business of living in the presidential palace is like having the lights on all the time..."

How many independent clauses in this quote (like could be whole sentences by themselves)?

“I liked to sit up front and ride the fast ones all day long, I liked it when they brushed right up against the buildings north of the Loop and I especially liked it when the buildings dropped away into that bombed-out squalor a little farther north...

What is the verb that is repeated in this sentence?

“From a little after two o’clock until almost sundown of the long still hot weary dead September afternoon they sat in what Miss Coldfield still called the office because her father had called it that..."

Who is the subject? (Who is doing the action?)

“From a little after two o’clock until almost sundown of the long still hot weary dead September afternoon they sat in what Miss Coldfield still called the office because her father had called it that–....

What is the verb?