Basic Clause Patterns: (SVOd Po ) Quiz
Test your understanding of basic clause patterns (SVOd Po )
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 an object predicative in subject - verb - object - object predicative (SVOd Po ) patterns.
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This simple quiz requires the quiz taker to identify the grammatical features of subject - verb - object - object predicative patterns (subjects, verbs, objects and object predicatives) in four sentences taken from authentic texts:
1. A major drought proved them wrong.
2. They found him congenial.
3. Time magazine declared him the Person of the 20th Century.
4. Many considered them unethical and offensive.
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 (Muller 2019), (Melleuish 2020), (Blair, Henriksen, and Hendry 2016), (Renteln 2018). See the
reference page.
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