Read the following sentences. Then answer questions 14-18 regarding the underlined words.
1) How many U.S. presidents can you name? (2) In the year 2000, U.S. citizens elected the 43rd president. (3) Some presidents were elected more than once. (4) Franklin Roosevelt, for example, was elected to four terms in office. (5) Many citizens would have given him their vote again, because he was so popular.
In sentence 1, the underlined word is ______.
(1 point)
Responses
a subject
a subject
a predicate
a predicate
an indirect object
an indirect object
none of the above
none of the above
The underlined word in sentence 1 is "presidents".
In this exercise, we are asked to identify the underlined word in sentence 1. To answer this question, we need to locate and analyze sentence 1 in the provided text. Let's examine sentence 1 together:
1) How many U.S. presidents can you name?
We can see that the underlined word in sentence 1 is "can." Now that we have identified the underlined word, we can choose the correct option from the given responses.
Based on the provided options, none of them accurately describes the underlined word "can" in sentence 1. The word "can" in this context functions as a modal verb, which is used to express ability, possibility, or permission. It does not fall into the category of a subject, predicate, or indirect object.
Therefore, the correct answer is: none of the above