The Big Fat Overdue English Language AS-level Quiz of Some Point in the 21st Century! - Vol. 3:

Which sentence function is usually the main topic of the clause and is often the doer of the action, which can be a single noun, e.g: "VIRGINIA blushed", a noun phrase, e.g: "ALL HIS GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS came back to him again", or a series of nouns or noun phrases, a pronoun, or certain kinds of subordinate clause?

The Complement

The Object

The Subject

The Predicate

TOP TIP: The part of the clause which is not the subject is sometimes called the 'predicate' + in the following example - "It was surprising" - because there is no person or thing involved in this clause, the subject is the 'impersonal prounoun' 'it'.

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The aspects of a verb express different ways of looking at the timing of an event or situation - which of these is NOT a type of verb aspect?

The simple aspect: suggests that an activity is complete, e.g: "I RAN the London marathon".

The progressive aspect: expresses the idea that someone is in the middle of doing something, e.g: "I'm LEARNING", "He WAS SNORING" etc.

The predicative aspect: predicts a forthcoming action, e.g: "I WILL be there tomorrow".

The perfective aspect: shows that an action in the past has a result now. Uses the auxiliary verb 'have' with the 'past participle', e.g: "i'VE SEEN ENOUGH. They HAD MISSED their chance.".

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The present progressive: shows that an event is in progress at the time of speaking and not yet completed, e.g: "i'M OPENING OUT like the largest telescope that ever was..."

The past progressive: shows that an event was in progress at a certain time, e.g: "Alice WAS BEGINNING to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank..."

The present perfective: refers to an event which started in the past and is still continuing into the present, e.g: "I HAVE NOT SLEPT for three hundred years..."

The past perfective: refers to an event which had started in the past and was still continuing, e.g: "He HAD HARDLY GONE a couple of miles when he heard somebody galloping after him..."

A __________ is any word is phrase that completes the sense of a subject, object, or a verb, e.g: "Harry is A GREAT GUITARIST" - includes a 'subject' __________, which completes the meaning of the sentence by giving info about the subject.

Compound

Modifier

Adverbial

Complemement

There are five types of sentences - which of the following is NOT one?

Minor sentences are complete and meaningful statements that don't have a subject and verb combination, e.g: "Be quiet", "Goodbye", "Sounds good" etc.

Simple sentences consist of one clause, with a single subject and predicate, e.g: "Steve told a funny joke".

Simple-Minor sentences don't have a verb, but do have an object, e.g: "Goodbye, Sam".

Compound sentences are sentences wit two or more main clauses usually joined by one of the conjunctions 'and', 'or' or 'but'. They link two independent clauses via a coordinating conjunction - thus each of the clauses could function independently as a simple sentence.

Complex sentences consist of a main clause and one or more subordinate clauses. The main clause is the most important, or only clause in the sentence. A subordinating conjunction connects the clauses together.

Compound-complex sentences are made up of at least two coordinate clauses connected by a coordinating conjunction, and at least one subordinate clause.

The following extract contains three adverbials. Which of the options is NOT a genuine adverbial? "Meanwhile, a witness, Ellen Baker, told police she had seen Alfred Statton... Tearing at high speed away from the shop."

"Alfred Statton" - an 'individual' adverbial, answering "Who?"

"Meanwhile" - a 'time' adverbial, answering "When?"

"at high speed" - a 'manner' adverbial, answering "How?"

"away from the shop" - a 'place' adverbial, answering "Where?"

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