about subject predicative

Posted by Elinor on 2007/6/1 12:34:52

Hi Civicjai,

Welcome to OkEnglish!

Tim taught me and I got the answers to the questions. Hope they are helpful.


Answer the following questions:

(a) Find an example of a sentence with a subject predicative
The reality was even stranger.

(b) Find and example of a passive sentence
the pig is sexually attracted by the truffle

(c) Identify one verb group which contains a perfect participle and the perfect auxiliary as its only auxiliary verb, and another which contains a modal and a perfect participle
The peasants of Perigord have proved that the pig is trainable, teaching him to find black truffles buried amongst the roots of oak trees,

Sue, that clever sporting pig, might have grunted expressively at such presumptions but she seemed, increasingly, a creature of distant myth.

(d) Identify a prepositional phrase in which the noun phrase contains a second prepositional phrase
There was talk of pigs pursuing sheep across the meadows of the Gower Peninsular.

(e)Find an adjective modifing an abstract noun
stuborn stupidity