Direct Object, Indirect Object, Predicate Nominative, Predicate Adjective, Object of the Preposition
The colored pencil went under the table. What is table?
OP
Could you grab the car keys that fell between the seats? What is seats?
OP
He kicked the ball to his teammates. What is teammates?
OP
Identify the PN: During the heat wave, dehydration became a threat for active citizens.
threat
Indirect object is
to WHO or WHOM the action of the verb is done.
What are some of the "non-positional" prepositions?
to, for, with, of, and at
Ask yourself ? when trying to identify the DO
"What is THE THING receiving the action?"
A linking verb is
A verb that does not show action but connects the subject with a word in the predicate.
Our father built the family a redwood picnic table. What is family?
IO
The doctor sent me a bill for his services. What is me?
IO
Earl often looks tired on Monday mornings. What is tired?
PA
That hamburger meat smells bad to me. What is bad?
PA
The sun grew hotter as the day went on. What is hotter?
PA
I'm not the one who did that. What is one?
PN
Ms. Rosseti will be our Spanish teacher this fall. What is teacher?
PN
When left to dry in the sun, plums become prunes. What is prunes?
PN
Identify the indirect object: Trey threw Tim the ball quickly.
Tim
Predicate nominative is
a noun
Predicate adjective always follows...
a linking verb
Predicate nominative always follows
a linking verb
Indirect objects
always come between the verb and the direct object.
Some linking verbs are:
am, are, is, was, were, be, being, been, have, appear, become, became, feel, grew, grow, sound, seem, look, taste
DO always follow...
an action verb
Predicative adjectives is
an adjective
Identify the direct object: Trey threw the ball quickly.
ball
Some prepositions are
beyond, before, between, beside, next to, in, on, on top of, within, without, aboard, above, through, under, over, at, across, around, near, out, since, beneath.
Identify the object of the preposition: She went behind the desk to get a pencil.
desk
Identify the predicate nominative: Chris became a fan of Elvis
fan
Identify the DO: I won the championship game of Scrabble last weekend
game
Identify the PA: The movie was hilarious
hilarious
PA is found
in the predicate
PN is found
in the predicate
Identify the IO: We gave my mother a book for her birthday.
mother
Direct objects is a
noun or pronoun
Identify the PN: The people behind you are my parents
parents
Direct object is the
person or thing that receives the action
Identify the predicate adjective: Both the tomato and the pepper are rich in Vitamin C
rich
PN renames
the subject
A preposition is
shows the relationship of a noun or a pronoun to some other word in a sentence; shows location or position of a noun
PA describes
the subject
Identify the OP: He had not had anything to eat since yesterday.
yesterday