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Identify Verb Types and Verb Complements Exercise

 

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8. The first sentence with a non-passive (active) Vc verb different from “consider, make, call”, and identify its complements as DO and OC.

9. The first sentence containing a passive VT or Vg verb (different from “give”), and its complements.

10. The first sentence containing a passive Vg or Vc verb different from the verb in point (9), and identify its complements.

The format should be like:

  • Underline & highlight (in yellow, green, blue, …. colour) the prescriptive rule violation in (1) and each verb in (2)-(10), and put the label VI, VL, VT, etc. under the verb.
  • Underline and bold all words which are in the verb complement(s): DO, IO, PredN, PredAdj, etc.) and the optional adverbs which may be used with the VI in (5), and put a label under each verb complement.