Basic Clause Patterns: (SVPs ) Quiz
Test your understanding of basic clause patterns (SVPs )
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 a subject predicative in subject - verb - subject predicative (SVPs ) patterns. The (SVPs ) pattern is used in description, signalling change, and in definitions, and the questions require you to identify these.
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This simple quiz requires the quiz taker to identify the grammatical features of subject - verb subject predicative patterns (subjects, verbs and subject predicatives) in ten sentences taken from authentic texts:
1. The bonds between these molecules are super strong.
2. Negative blood types are somewhat rare.
3. Wood tablets covered in beeswax became a popular writing material in Greece, Rome and Egypt.
4. During that time, the planet was much cooler than it is now.
5. Microbes are living, single-celled creatures surrounded by a membrane.
6. In the 1950s, television sets were bulky and the picture was in black and white.
7. Your favorite songs and artists become familiar, comforting parts of your routine.
8. Working memory is central to our mental lives.
9. A source is where information comes from.
10. Octopuses are a specific type of invertebrate called cephalopods.
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Sentences for these exercises came from (Vodovotz 2022), (Helms 2022), (Law 2021), (Su 2022), (Noll 2023), (Weitzen 2022), (McAndrew 2019), (Völter 2019), (Britten 2022), (Spencer and Papastamatiou 2022). See the
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