This post and its practice problems took me 24 mins to make.
Conclusion of Part 1 Practice Sentences
John went to the new store.
Action verb: went
Subject: John
Object: I don’t think there is an object. I’ll check with somebody else’s work.
“To the new store” is a Prepositional Phrase that modifies “went”. “To” is the preposition. Its noun is “store”. “To” relates “went” and “store” to say what place John went.
“The” modifies “store”.
“New” modifies “store”.
Conclusions: John went somewhere. He went to the store.
The ferocious dog chased three cats over the chair.
Action verb: chased
Subject: dog
Object: cats
The first “The” modifies “dog”.
“Ferocious” modifies “dog”
“Three” modifies “cats”.
Prepositional Phrase: “over the chair”. This is an adverb that modifies “chased”. “Over” is the preposition and its noun is “chair”. “Over” relates “chased” and “chair” to say where the chasing happened.
The second “the” modifies “chair”.
Conclusions: There was dog and he chased cats. The dog was ferocious. There were three cats. And the chasing action was happening on top of the chair.
I’m not too sure about my conclusion for the chasing happening on the chair. My conclusion makes it sound like the chasing happened exclusively on the chair.
I saw @Eternity’s post on this practice sentence and it made more sense to me:
The chasing was happening while going over a chair. I think I’ll look up what over means as a preposition