Clauses and Verb phrases - AP3 (robots/AI Texts)

Verb phrase or clause and how many?

Instead of legs, I move on stabilized wheels.

• clause

• verb phrase

• 1

• 2

What type of sentence is this?

We tweet at each other, but I am often left out of crucial face-to-face

meetings, spontaneous brainstorm sessions, gossip in the kitchen.

What is highlighted in red:

I have been part robot since May.

What is this?

an iPad on a stick on a Segway base

Is this a verb phrase?

the pixelated image of my boss’s torso and a few

headless co-workers

• yes

• no

Is this a clause?

I was like a foal

• yes

• no

Verb phrase or clause?

"You’re very loud.”

• verb phrase

• clause

Write out the verb phrase:

Once you’ve invited a bot into your home

What is the verb phrase?

Movies and marketing may have primed us to expect sophisticated interaction with our robotic chums

“This is an incredibly important milestone, but anyone who thinks this is not dangerous has got their head in the sand.”

• third verb phrase

• is

• second verb

• has got

• first noun phrase

• thinks

• first verb

• an incredibly important milestone

• coordinating conjunction

• but