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Presidential Facts:
Identify Sentence Types

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    Part 1

  1. Transitive verbs must have:
    a. an adjective
    b. an adverb
    c. a direct object
    d. a prepositional phrase

  2. Intransitive verbs cannot change to passive voice.
    a. true
    b. false

  3. The verb "to be" is called:
    a. a prepositional phrase
    b. a linking verb
    c. a phrasal verb
    d. a tensed verb

  4. The first president, George Washington, served for eight years.
    "George Washington" is the:
    a. subject
    b. appositive
    c. direct object
    d. indirect object

  5. President Washington was a general during the Revolutionary War.
    "general" is the:
    a. predicate adjective
    b. predicate nominative
    c. object complement
    d. indirect object

  6. The nation's capital's location, Washington, D.C., was chosen by George Washington.
    "by George Washington" is:
    a. the agent
    b. a prepositional phrase
    c. the subject of the active voice sentence
    d. all of the above

  7. President Lincoln was very tall.
    "tall" is the:
    a. predicate adjective
    b. predicate nominative
    c. object complement
    d. indirect object

  8. The citizens elected Abraham Lincoln president in 1860.
    "president" is the:
    a. predicate adjective
    b. predicate nominative
    c. object complement
    d. indirect object

  9. The sixteenth president gave slaves their freedom.
    "slaves" is the:
    a. predicate adjective
    b. predicate nominative
    c. object complement
    d. indirect object

    Part 2: Identify the sentence type.

  10. At sixteen years of age, young George Washington was a surveyor.
    a. transitive active
    b. transitive passive
    c. intransitive linking
    d. intransitive complete

  11. George Washington crossed the Delaware River in darkness.
    a. transitive active
    b. transitive passive
    c. intransitive linking
    d. intransitive complete

  12. People were told many legends about George Washington.
    a. transitive active
    b. transitive passive
    c. intransitive linking
    d. intransitive complete

  13. George Washington never lied about chopping down a cherry tree.
    a. transitive active
    b. transitive passive
    c. intransitive linking
    d. intransitive complete

  14. George Washington died of a throat infection.
    a. transitive active
    b. transitive passive
    c. intransitive linking
    d. intransitive complete

  15. Abraham Lincoln gave freedom to the slaves in the south by issuing the Emancipation Proclamation.
    a. transitive active
    b. transitive passive
    c. intransitive linking
    d. intransitive complete

  16. Abraham Lincoln could read, write, and cipher by himself.
    a. transitive active
    b. transitive passive
    c. intransitive linking
    d. intransitive complete

  17. Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the United States.
    a. transitive active
    b. transitive passive
    c. intransitive linking
    d. intransitive complete

  18. Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D. C. by John Wilkes Booth, an actor.
    a. transitive active
    b. transitive passive
    c. intransitive linking
    d. intransitive complete

Copyright (C) 2001 by Catherine Rifkin (cmrifkin@fccj.org)
This quiz is part of the HTML-Only Self-Study Quizzes which is part of Activities for ESL Students, a project by The Internet TESL Journal.