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
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Responses
a predicate.
a direct object.
an indirect object.
none of the above
The underlined word in sentence 4 is "elected". Therefore, none of the above options are correct.
The underlined word in sentence 4 is "four".
Therefore, none of the listed options (a predicate, a direct object, an indirect object) are correct.
To answer this question, we need to look at sentence 4 which states "Franklin Roosevelt, for example, was elected to four terms in office." The underlined word in this sentence is "elected."
Now, looking at the response options:
a) A predicate is the part of a sentence that contains the verb and provides information about the subject. However, "elected" is not a predicate in this sentence because it is not providing information about the subject, which is "Franklin Roosevelt."
b) A direct object is a noun or pronoun that receives the action of the verb. In this sentence, "elected" is not acting upon any noun or pronoun, so it is not a direct object.
c) An indirect object is a noun or pronoun that receives the direct object. Again, in this sentence, there is no direct object for "elected" to act upon, so it is not an indirect object.
Therefore, the correct answer is "none of the above." "Elected" in sentence 4 is a verb, specifically the past tense form of the verb "to elect."