Sentence Structure

"For decades, lunar missions have operated on the time of the country that launched them."

Identify the simple subject of the independent clause in the above sentence.

• missions

• decades

• have operated

• country

• that launched them

"For decades, lunar missions have operated on the time of the country that launched them."

Identify prepositions in the above sentence.

• for

• on

• the

• of

• that

"For decades, lunar missions have operated on the time of the country that launched them."

Identify the dependent clause in the above sentence.

• lunar missions

• For decades

• missions have operated

• on the time of the country

• that launched them

"For decades, lunar missions have operated on the time of the country that launched them."

Identify objects of prepositions in the above sentence.

• time

• decades

• operated

• country

• them

"For decades, lunar missions have operated on the time of the country that launched them."

Identify the verb of the independent clause in the above sentence.

• missions

• decades

• have operated

• country

• launched

"For decades, lunar missions have operated on the time of the country that launched them."

Identify all prepositional phrases in the above sentence.

• on the time

• For decades

• have operated

• of the country

• that launched them

"For decades, lunar missions have operated on the time of the country that launched them."

Identify the word acting as the subject of the dependent clause in the above sentence.

• missions

• lunar

• launched

• them

• that

"For decades, lunar missions have operated on the time of the country that launched them."

Identify the word verb of the dependent clause in the above sentence.

• have

• lunar

• launched

• operated

• have operated

"The discussion about how to do that is happening as things are starting to get busy on and above the lunar surface."

Identify the subject of the independent clause of the above sentence.

• discussion

• that

• is happening

• things

• surface

"The discussion about how to do that is happening as things are starting to get busy on and above the lunar surface."

Identify the subject of the dependent clause of the above sentence.

• discussion

• busy

• that

• things

• surface