Basic Clause Patterns: (SVOC) Quiz
Test your understanding of basic clause patterns (SVOC)
About this quiz
Follow the instructions in the exercise below to test your understanding of simple clause patterns. This exercise is concerned mainly with identifying subjects, verbs, objects and complements in subject - verb - object - complement (SVOC) patterns.
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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 - object - complement clause patterns (subjects, verbs, objects and complements) in three sentences taken from authentic texts:
1. We asked 27 college-aged volunteers to lie still in the scanner as we collected images of their brains.
2. Some adults may tell kids that drinking caffeine will stunt their growth.
3. You can set alarms to help remind you when it's time to go to bed.
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 (Hodgetts 2017), (Temple 2020), (McMakin 2021). See the
reference page.
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