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Grammar Cheat Sheet Three Noun What Follows a Linking Verb Predicate Nominative Predicative Adjective What follows a Preposition What follows an action verb Infinitives Participles ****Present Participle Phrase and Gerunds Phrases**** Past Tense Participles Object Compliment Misplaced Modifiers Dangling Modifier Subject, Direct Object, Object of the Prepositional Phrase, Predicate Nominative, Object Complement Most commonly used linking verb- is Connects the subject to another noun( which usually follows the verb) in the sentence or connects to another adjective( which usually follows the verb) in the sentence Predicate Nominative (Noun) or Predicate Adjective Connects the subject to another noun (which usually follows the verb) in the sentence Ex: She is the candidate for the freshman president. Connects the subject to another adjective (which usually follows the verb) in the sentence Ex: He is handsome. Object of the Prepositional Phrase It is a noun that follows shortly after the preposition Direct Object (receives the action presented from the verb). It also usually answers the questions “What?” Ex: He kicked the ball. ALMOST ALWAYS begins with to but doesn’t have to have the word to when words associate with the following are present in the sentence: feel, hear, help, let, make, see, and watch. Word often ending in “ing” or ed, d, t, en, n Function mainly as adjectives (modifies a noun or pronoun) and sometimes adverbs (modifies verb or another adverb) Both are verb forms ending in “ing” Often gerund phrases will be right before the verb of the sentence Often participle phrase will be close to the noun/adjective its modifying end in ed, d, t, en n Follows a direct object and answers the question what or whom about that direct object Modifiers which are placed too far from the word they are describing which causes confusion for the reader Ex: Amazed, the dinosaur exhibit thrilled my brother and his friends. Corrected version: Amazed, my brother and his friends were thrilled with the dinosaur exhibit. Modifier which doesn’t have a word to describe. Ex: Before moving to Philadelphia, Mexico City had been their home. Corrected Version: Before moving to Philadelphia, they had lived in Mexico City.