Parts of the Sentence

SubjectsIn each clause of each sentence below, mark both the complete subject and the simple subject(s).1. Don’t be humble; you’re not that great.2. In the eyes of its mother, every beetle is a gazelle.3. There are no signposts in the sea.4. The structure of every sentence is a lesson in logic.5. The burden of proof lies on the plaintiff.6. Most of the disputes in the world arise from words.7. In war, all delays are dangerous.8. Sticks and stones may break my bones, and words can sting like anything.Objects and ComplementsMark all direct objects (DO), indirect objects (IO), subject complements (SC) and object complements (OC) n thesentences below.1. Luck never made a man wise.2. You show me a capitalist and I will show you a bloodsucker.3. Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.4. Some folk want their luck buttered.5. Talk is cheap.6. Sorrow makes us wise.7. Give the devil his due.8. A wide screen makes a bad film worse.Sentence TypesIdentify each sentence as simple (S), compound (CP), complex (CX), or compound-complex (CP-CX) by writing theappropriate abbreviation at the end of the sentence.1. People who sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.2. If you don’t go to other people’s funerals, they won’t go to yours.3. The children are always the chief victims of social chaos.4. Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated.5. The impersonal hand of the government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.6. The tragedy of life is that people don’t change.7. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.8. The best mind-altering drug is truth.Prepositional PhrasesUnderline the prepositional phrases in the sentences below.1. We know that the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

2. Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.3. By a small sample, we may know the whole piece.4. You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.5. Any mother could perform the job of several air traffic controllers with ease.6. To my embarrassment, I was born in bed with a lady.7. Language is the road map of culture.8. Communism is fascism with a human face.Verbal PhrasesUnderline the verbal phrases (gerund, participial, and infinitive phrases) in the following sentences.1. The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.2. Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend’s forehead.3. He has the gall of a shoplifter returning an item for a refund.4. The trouble with being punctual is that nobody is there to appreciate it.5. The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.6. Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.7. Being weak, children quickly learn to beguile us with charm.8. Wrestling with words gave me my moments of greatest meaning.Coordination and SubordinationCombine or restructure the following sentences by subordinating minor ideas or by coordinating ideas of equalimportance.1. An instruction manual is enclosed with your computer, and it is user-friendly.2. There are five fishing piers on the island. Each pier has a bait and tackle shop.3. Mary will graduate from high school in June. She has not yet decided on a college.4. Agnes was another girl I worked with. She was a hyperactive child.5. I noticed the sky was glowing orange and red. I bent down to crawl into the bunker.Faulty SubordinationRestructure each sentence to emphasize the major idea, indicated in brackets, without losing any content; rememberthat major ideas should be in independent clauses, while minor ideas should be in dependent/subordinate clauses.1. We experienced a routine morning at the clinic until an infant in cardiac arrest arrived by ambulance.[Emphasize the arrival of the infant.]2. I was losing consciousness when my will to live kicked in. [Emphasize the will to live.]3. My 1969 Camaro, which is no longer street legal, is an original SS396. [Emphasize that the car is nolonger street legal.]