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Basic Clause Patterns: (SVA) Quiz

Test your understanding of basic clause patterns (SVA)

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 and adverbials in subject-verb-obligatory adverbial (SVA) 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.


Sentences for these exercises came from (Stucky 2022), (Naylor 2022), (Buscha 2023), (Kedziora-Chudczer 2022). See the reference page.
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