Exercise 5
Fill the blanks in the following sentences with a noun and its modifiers used as predicate complement. Name all of the parts of speech which you have used in the predicate complement as we have done in the sentences analyzed above:
- The men are loyal members of the Union.
- Slavery is.......
- Liberty will be.......
- War is.......
- The machine is.......
- The children were.......
Fill the blanks in the following sentences with one or more adjectives and their modifiers used in the predicate complement.
- The work is hard and destructive to the children.
- The history will be.......
- Labor has been.......
- Peace will be.......
- Poverty is.......
Fill the blanks in the following sentences with a phrase used in the predicate complement.
- His service was for his class.
- Socialism is.......
- The workers are.......
- The message shall be.......
- The government is.......
- The opportunity is.......
VERB PHRASES
413. Note that in most of the sentences which we have used, we have used the simple form of the verb, the form that is used to express past and present time. In expressing other time forms we use verb phrases. Note the summary given in section 145, which gives the different time forms of the verb.
414. Sometimes in using the verb phrase you will find that other words may separate the words forming the phrase. When you analyze your sentence this will not confuse you. You will easily be able to pick out the verb phrase. For example: