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Review: Parts of the Sentence
Identify the highlighted word in each of the sentences below as a simple subject, a verb, a direct object, an indirect object or a subject complement.
- The old house on the hill gave Nora chills and conjured up images of ghosts and monsters.
- Next to the china cabinet, Mrs. Wilkes placed a polished side table and an antique jug.
- Despite winning the lottery last week, my team leader still seems unhappy.
- The alumni association gave the university a large endowment for the scholarship fund.
- Some experts believe it is easy to overstate the role that genes and heredity play in determining a person’s predisposition to alcoholism.
- Although the movie was exciting, Luigi grew drowsy and slept through it.
- I don’t know how Emma can understand anything Luigi says.
- There were no credits after the movie.
- Natalie and her new boyfriend, Luigi, will be going to the symphony next week.
- The company has been mailing me CD catalogues ever since I bought my sound system.
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