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Activity 1- Happy in Ten Different Ways
Here are ten tasks to check your knowledge of various phrases using the word happy!
- Use happy as an adjective.
- Use happy within a prepositional phrase.
- Use happy as an adjective that describes the sentence's subject.
- Use happy as part of a gerund phrase.
- Use happy within a participial phrase.
- Use happy within an infinitive phrase.
- Use happy in the predicate of a sentence.
- Use happy as the subject of a sentence.
- Use happy as predicate adjective.
- Use happily as an adverb.
Activity 2- Writing with Variety
Here is your chance to show how you can use many different types of verbals, phrases, and complements in your writing. Underline each phrase or complement that you use in each sentence.
- Write a sentence that contains at least one prepositional phrase.
- Write a sentence that includes a participial but no phrase.
- Write a sentence that starts with a participial phrase.
- Write a sentence that includes an infinitive but no phrase.
- Write a sentence that ends with an infinitive phrase.
- Write a sentence that includes a gerund but no phrase.
- Write a sentence that starts with a gerund phrase.
- Write a sentence that contains a direct object.
- Write a sentence that contains a predicate nominative.
- Write a sentence that contains a predicate adjective.
Activity 3- Phrases Finale
Write True or False on the line before each statement.
1. _____ A prepositional phrase can function as an adjective or an adverb.
2. _____ ''Because of'' is not a preposition.
3. _____ A gerund phrase can function as a noun.
4. _____ In the sentence, “The artist was creating a masterpiece” the word “masterpiece” is a predicate nominative.
5. _____ A sentence with an action verb cannot have a predicate nominative.
6. _____ The noun or pronoun that generally ends a prepositional phrase is called the object of the preposition.
7. _____ A gerund phrase can be removed from the sentence, and the sentence will still make sense.
8. _____ ''Called out at third base'' is an example of a gerund phrase.
9. _____ ''We went to the dance'' includes a prepositional phrase that functions as an adjective.
10. _____ There are three types of verbals—the participle, the gerund, and the infinitive.
11. _____ The sentence ''The candidate to choose is Juan Ramos'' includes a participial phrase.
12. _____ A sentence with a linking verb cannot have a direct object.
13. _____ In the sentence “Attitude is everything all the time” the word “everything” is a predicate nominative.
14. _____ A participial phrase can include a prepositional phrase.
15. _____ A prepositional phrase acting as an adjective generally follows right after the word it modifies.
16. _____ ''To see the beauty of nature'' is an example of an infinitive phrase.
17. _____ In the sentence, ''Removing the furniture from the upstairs rooms was not easy,'' the phrase ''Removing the furniture from the upstairs rooms'' is a participial phrase.
18. _____ A pronoun can be the object of the preposition.
19. _____ A sentence with a linking verb cannot have an indirect object.
20. _____ The phrase ''of the majority'' is a prepositional phrase.