Complements of Subjects and Verbs Flashcards
What is a preposition
A word that shows how a noun or pronoun is related to some other word in the sentence. (above, against, behind, between, by, in, of, on, to, etc.)
What questions do adjectives answer?
What kind, how many, how much, whose.
What questions do adverbs answer?
Where, when, how, how often, to what extent?
What can action verbs be?
Direct object, indirect object, objective compliment
What can linking verbs be?
Predicate nominative, Predicate adjective.
What does a predicate nominative do?
Renames the subject.
What does a predicate adjective do?
Describes the subject
What words are rarely verbs?
There, here, and it.
What questions do Indirect objects answer?
To whom, for whom, to what, for what.
What question does objective compliment answer?
To be (what)
What do direct objects answer?
Who or what.
