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HELPING VERBS: EXERCISE #1
NAME:________________________________________________________________
DIRECTIONS: Parse and diagram the sentences below.
1. Black Ships Before Troy was written by Rosemary Sutcliffe before 1993.
2. She had been writing novels for many decades.
3. This writer has long been famous for her superb children's books.
4. She could easily have been popular for her novels for adults also.
5. Do you know anything about the Trojan War?
6. This book will guide you to an understanding of Greek mythology.
7. In The Wanderings of Odysseus Mrs. Sutcliffe has provided a retelling of Homer's Odyssey.
DEFINTIONS:
1. Helping verbs are verbs that come ____________________ main verbs and help form different __________________.
2. Adjectives are words that __________________________________________________________________________.
3. A pronoun is a word that ___________________________________________________________________________.
4. The helping verb and the main verb together make up the _________________________________________________.
HELPING VERBS: EXERCISE #2
NAME:________________________________________________________________
DIRECTIONS: Parse and diagram the sentences below.
1. Hector's mother had given a piteous shriek for her dead son.
2. This woman had become a grieving mother.
3. She would be seen as a wounded bird among the wailing women.
4. In the chamber of the house, Andromache had been weaving a mantle of fine purple.
5. This group could not accept the death of their beloved Hector.
6. Hector had not been provided with proper burial rites.
7. He must wander alone in the borderlands outside Hades.
DIRECTIONS: Write what job the underlined words are doing. Choose your answers from among the following:
SUBJECT
DIRECT OBJECT
PREDICATE NOMINATIVE
VERB
MODIFIER
OBJECT OF THE PREPOSITION
INDIRECT OBJECT
PREDICATE ADJECTIVE
SENTENCE #
WORD
JOB
1
piteous
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2
mother
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3
bird
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4
Andromache
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5
death
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6
proper
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7
must wander
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HELPING VERBS: EXERCISE #3
NAME:________________________________________________________________
DIRECTIONS: Parse and diagram the sentences below.
1. Achilles' dream of Patroclus had been very emotional.
2. He had been asked by his sword-brother for a proper burial.
3. He could not feel his arms around Patroclus in the dream.
4. His men would now build the slain warrior a great pyre.
5. At sunset Achilles had set the pile on fire.
6. The mourners would then place the ashes of Patroclus in a great golden cup.
7. Funeral games in the man's honor had been the custom in those days.
DEFINTIONS:
1. In a noun-linking verb-noun pattern, the second noun is called the _________________________________________.
1. In a noun-linking verb-adjective pattern, the second noun is called the ______________________________________.
3. What are the modifiers in this sentence? _______________________________________________________________
DIRECTIONS: Write what job the underlined words are doing. Choose your answers from among the following:
SUBJECT
DIRECT OBJECT
PREDICATE NOMINATIVE
VERB
MODIFIER
OBJECT OF THE PREPOSITION
INDIRECT OBJECT
PREDICATE ADJECTIVE
SENTENCE #
1
WORD
emotional
JOB
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2
his
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2
dream
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4
warrior
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5
had set
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6
ashes
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7
custom
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