Grammar Cheat Sheet Three
Noun
What Follows a Linking Verb
Predicate Nominative
Predicative Adjective
What follows a Preposition
What follows an action verb
Infinitives
Participles
****Present Participle
Phrase and Gerunds
Phrases****
Past Tense Participles
Object Compliment
Misplaced Modifiers
Dangling Modifier
Subject, Direct Object, Object of the Prepositional Phrase, Predicate
Nominative, Object Complement
Most commonly used linking verb- is
Connects the subject to another noun( which usually follows the verb)
in the sentence or connects to another adjective( which usually
follows the verb) in the sentence
Predicate Nominative (Noun) or Predicate Adjective
Connects the subject to another noun (which usually follows the verb) in
the sentence Ex: She is the candidate for the freshman president.
Connects the subject to another adjective (which usually follows the
verb) in the sentence Ex: He is handsome.
Object of the Prepositional Phrase It is a noun that follows shortly
after the preposition
Direct Object (receives the action presented from the verb). It also
usually answers the questions “What?” Ex: He kicked the ball.
ALMOST ALWAYS begins with to but doesn’t have to have the word to
when words associate with the following are present in the sentence:
feel, hear, help, let, make, see, and watch.
Word often ending in “ing” or ed, d, t, en, n
Function mainly as adjectives (modifies a noun or pronoun) and
sometimes adverbs (modifies verb or another adverb)
Both are verb forms ending in “ing”
Often gerund phrases will be right before the verb of the sentence
Often participle phrase will be close to the noun/adjective its
modifying
end in ed, d, t, en n
Follows a direct object and answers the question what or whom about
that direct object
Modifiers which are placed too far from the word they are describing
which causes confusion for the reader Ex: Amazed, the dinosaur
exhibit thrilled my brother and his friends.
Corrected version: Amazed, my brother and his friends were thrilled
with the dinosaur exhibit.
Modifier which doesn’t have a word to describe.
Ex: Before moving to Philadelphia, Mexico City had been their home.
Corrected Version: Before moving to Philadelphia, they had lived in
Mexico City.