Grade 7 · English Language Arts · Unit 10 of 14
Grammar Gears
Objects, participles and phrases
What your child practises
Finding the person who receives something (indirect object), words after linking verbs that rename or describe the subject, -ing and -ed describing words (participles), and phrases that tell when, where, how or why.
Alberta Curriculum learning outcome: General Outcome 4 · parts of sentences, such as predicate nouns and participles
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
Which sentence has a predicate noun?
- Noah is a talented drummer.
- Noah is in the band room.
- Noah drums loudly.
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Noah is a talented drummer.
Hint: Drummer renames Noah after the linking verb.
Question 2
Which word is a predicate adjective? The sky grew dark.
- sky
- dark
- grew
Show answer
dark
Hint: Grew links the subject to a word that describes it.
Question 3
Which sentence has a direct object and an indirect object?
- Lena told Amir a joke.
- Lena is funny.
- Lena laughed loudly.
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Lena told Amir a joke.
Hint: A joke is told, and Amir receives it.
Question 4
Which word does the participial phrase describe? Waving to the crowd, Kenji walked on stage.
- crowd
- Kenji
- stage
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Kenji
Hint: Who was waving? The phrase describes the person.
Question 5
Which sentence has a predicate adjective?
- The lake is in Ontario.
- We swam in the lake.
- The lake looks calm.
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The lake looks calm.
Hint: Calm describes the lake after the linking verb looks.
Question 6
Which word is the direct object? The teacher gave the class a quiz.
- class
- quiz
- gave
Show answer
quiz
Hint: The direct object is the thing that was given.