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Lesson 148

Parts of the Sentence - Noun/Pronoun Review


A simple sentence is a group of words expressing a complete thought, and it must have a subject and a verb. A predicate nominative or predicate noun completes a linking verb and renames the subject. A direct object receives the action performed by the subject. An appositive is a word or group of words that identifies or renames the noun or pronoun that it follows. Nouns or nominatives of address are the persons or things to which you are speaking.


Transitive active verbs are the verbs in sentences with a direct object. Transitive passive verbs have the subject receiving the action with the doer in a prepositional phrase or omitted in the sentence. Intransitive linking are sentences with a predicate nominative or predicate adjective. Intransitive complete are all the verbs that don't fit one of the other kinds of transitive or intransitive verbs.




1. Mr. Hoyle introduced the speaker, a famous French educator.


2. Please answer the door, Fred.


3. Phil Clintock should not have been elected President.


4. No one enters my territory without permission and lives.


5. The rehearsal has been changed, Jessica.



 --For answers scroll down.














1. introduced = verb (ta), Mr. Hoyle = subject, speaker = direct object, educator = appositive


2. answer = verb (ta), you (understood) = subject, door = direct object, Fred = noun of address


3. should have been elected = verb (il), Bill Clintock = subject, President = predicate nominative


4. enters = verb (ta) / lives = verb (ic), no one = subject, territory = direct object


5. has been changed = verb (tp), rehearsal = subject, Jessica = noun of address


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