Basic Clause Patterns: ( SVOi Od ) Quiz
Test your understanding of basic clause patterns ( SVOi Od )
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 direct and indirect objects in subject - verb - indirect object - direct object ( SVOi Od ) patterns.
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This simple quiz requires the quiz taker to identify the grammatical features of subject - verb - indirect object - direct object patterns (subjects, verbs indirect objects and direct objects) in five sentences taken from authentic texts:
1. Quantum mechanics tells us which event is more likely.
2. I couldn’t read him a bedtime story.
3. The men gave him biscuits, water and cigarettes.
4. We sent them and their parents a video explaining the project.
5. Dubbing him the 'Shakespeare of music' the English press had already paid him the ultimate compliment.
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 (Jones 2015), (Smart 2022), (Mehrban 2021), (Maynard and Barton 2020), (Muir 2017). See the
reference page.
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