Basic Clause Patterns: (SVOd A ) Quiz
Test your understanding of basic clause patterns (SVOd A )
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 objects and adverbials in subject - verb - direct object - obligatory adverbial (SVOd A ) patterns.
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This simple quiz requires the quiz taker to identify the grammatical features of subject - verb - direct object - adverbial clause patterns (subjects, verbs and direct objects - adverbial clauses) in four sentences taken from authentic texts:
1. We take these smoke samples back to the lab […].
2. Trapped insects […] are forced to lay their eggs far from the plants their young need to eat.
3. Do authors really put deeper meaning into poems and stories […]?
4. This pulls us towards the middle of the Earth, and keeps our feet firmly on the ground.
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 (Archibald 2021), (Linares and Barber 2019), (Gruner 2020), (Loon 2020). See the
reference page.
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