Basic Clause Patterns: (SV) Quiz
Test your understanding of basic clause patterns (SV)
About this quiz
Follow the instructions in the exercise below to test your understanding of simple clause patterns. This exercise is concerned with identifying subjects, verbs and adverbials in subject - verb (+ optional adverbial) (SV) patterns.
You can copy and paste from the question to the answer window.
You can make as many attempts as you wish for each question, but each attempt is only counted if your submission is close to the correct answer. After five close attempts you will have the option of seeing the correct answer. By clicking on the red square you can see further feedback about the correct answer. You will be able to see your quiz statistics (correct answers and number of attempts) once you have attempted all ten questions.
This simple quiz requires the quiz taker to identify the grammatical features of subject - verb patterns (subjects, verbs and optional adverbs) in five sentences taken from authentic texts:
1. This never happened, however.
2. An extremely large earthquake has occurred in the southeast of Turkey, near the border with Syria.
3. The benefits of physical activity on a wide range of physical and mental health outcomes remain undeniable.
4. This shift in melatonin during puberty lasts into our 20s.
5. Typically, visibility during these sightings was not good.
Once the quiz is completed a score and a timestamp are given. Feedback is immediately available for every correct answer.
Sentences for these exercises came from (Jenkins 2023), (Cheval and Boisgontier 2023), (Malow 2023), (Little 2023). See the
reference page.
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