Read the following sentences.
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.
Question
Use the passage to answer the question.
In sentence 4, the underlined word is ______.
(1 point)
Responses
a predicate
a predicate
a direct object
a direct object
an indirect object
an indirect object
a prepositional phrase
a direct object
In sentence 4, the underlined word is "elected," which is a predicate.
To answer this question, we need to identify the underlined word in sentence 4. Let's look at sentence 4: "Franklin Roosevelt, for example, was elected to four terms in office."
The underlined word in sentence 4 is "elected."
Now that we have identified the underlined word, we can determine its role in the sentence. In this case, "elected" is the main verb of the sentence and functions as the predicate. Therefore, the correct answer is:
a predicate.