The oven has been turned off for an hour and thirty minutes.
Phrase: turned off for an hour and thirty minutes
Verb: had been
Subject:oven
The secretary and the accountant walked around and found the missing notebook in the trash can.
Verb: walked
Subject: secretary and accountant
Phrase: around and found the missing notebook
Please check my answers.
Both are wrong.
What parts are wrong? Is it the phrases or the verbs?
I think that for sentence number 2, there might have been two verbs. The verbs are walked and found. If the double underlined walked and found, do I just cross out the word around and and?
1 and 2 The subjects are right.
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Your answers are almost correct! Just a small correction:
Verb: found
Subject: Secretary and accountant
Phrase: walked around and found the missing notebook
Here's the corrected version of your sentence:
The secretary and the accountant walked around and found the missing notebook in the trash can.
Great job!