Basic Clause Patterns: (SVOp ) Quiz
Test your understanding of basic clause patterns (SVOp )
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 prepositional objects in subject - prepositional verb - prepositional object (SVOp ) patterns.
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This simple quiz requires the quiz taker to identify the grammatical features of subject - verb - prepositional object patterns (subjects, verbs and prepositional objects) in four sentences taken from authentic texts:
1. More than 10 million people need to rely on food aid.
2. Nowadays, of course, many people pay for things without cash or coins.
3. Different scientific questions call for different sorts of answers.
4. These often turn into the seeds of the fruit and nuts we eat.
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 (Ardakanian 2016), (Mehkari 2022), (Parke 2022), (Schouten 2020). See the
reference page.
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