Skin It Test Review

What is the first thing you find when skinning a sentence?

• subject

• prep phrase

• verb(s)

• object baskets

Everyone seems really tired today.

• predicate

  nominative

• direct

  object

• predicate

  adjective

• indirect object

• object of the preposition

Everyone seems really tired today.

• action

  verb

• linking

  verb

• predicate

  adjective

Michael offered us hot dogs for dinner.

• predicate

  nominative

• indirect

  object

• object of the

  preposition

• direct

  object

Michael offered us hot dogs for dinner.

• predicate

  nominative

• indirect

  object

• object of the

  preposition

• direct

  object

Michael offered us hot dogs for dinner.

• predicate

  nominative

• indirect

  object

• object of the

  preposition

• direct

  object

Identify the subject:

Both of the doors were broken after the storm.

• BOTH

• DOORS

• WERE BROKEN

• STORM

Identify the verb(s):

Both of the doors were broken after the storm.

• BOTH

• DOORS

• BROKEN

• STORM

• WERE BROKEN

Why is "get rid of prep phrase step #2?

• to help locate the verb(s)

• objects are never in a prep phrase

• the subject is never in the prep phrase

• to help identify the PN or PA

All prepositional phrases must have...​ (a)  

• an object
• an adjective
• a subject
• a verb
• an adverb