Basic Clause Patterns: (SVOd Op ) Quiz
Test your understanding of basic clause patterns (SVOd Op )
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, direct and prepositional objects in subject - prepositional verb - direct object - prepositional object (SVOd Op ) patterns.
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This simple quiz requires the quiz taker to identify the grammatical features of subject - verb - direct object - prepositional object patterns (subjects, verbs direct objects and prepositional objects) in three sentences taken from authentic texts:
1. These receptor cells then send a signal to your brain.
2. The monks made this very beautiful book of prayers for her.
3. Sometimes people will pay a lot of money for them.
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 (Lemons, Kenney, and Lin 2020), (Farina 2022), (Hughes 2021). See the
reference page.
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