Grade 7 · English Language Arts · Unit 2 of 13
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.
Ontario Curriculum expectation: B3.2 · indirect objects, predicate nouns and adjectives, participles, and adverbial phrases
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.