Identify the subject, verb, compliment and prepositional phrase
1. Native cactuses in the Southwest are in trouble.
2. Some species are already vulnerable to eventual extinction.
3. Cactuses are being threatened by landscapers, collectors, and tourists.
4. Many people harvest these wild plants.
5. There are many unique and unusual species in Arizona.
1, cactuses-sub, are-verb, in the southwest, in trouble-pp
2, species-sub, are-verb, vulnerable-comp, to extintion-pp
3. cactuses-sub, are being-v, threatened-comp, by landscapers-pp
4. people-s, harvest-v,
5. species-sub, are-v, in ariziona-pp
3. The whole prepositional phrase is " by landscapers, collectors, and tourists"
4. What is the compliment?
Everything else is correct!!
4. these-compl
No.
I left out a word in # 4.
Many people illegally harvest these wild plants.
So would the compliment be illegally?
No. Illegally is an adverb; these is used as an adjective. This compliment is a noun.
How did you get most of these questions right, but not this one?
There is no complement in #4. There's a direct object, though. Do you see it?
Isn't plants an object complement?
"plants" is the direct object in that sentence. It's not describing anything.
Great job on identifying the subjects, verbs, compliments, and prepositional phrases! Here's the breakdown for each sentence:
1. Subject: Native cactuses in the Southwest
Verb: are
Compliment: in trouble
Prepositional phrase: in the Southwest
2. Subject: Some species
Verb: are
Compliment: already vulnerable
Prepositional phrase: to eventual extinction
3. Subject: Cactuses
Verb: are being threatened
Compliment: by landscapers, collectors, and tourists
Prepositional phrase: None
4. Subject: Many people
Verb: harvest
Compliment: these wild plants
Prepositional phrase: None
5. Subject: There
Verb: are
Compliment: many unique and unusual species
Prepositional phrase: in Arizona