Question

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.
Questions: In sentence 1, the word in parenthesis is ______.
a. a subject
b. a predicate
c. an indirect object
d. none of the above
In sentence 2, the word in parenthesis is a/an _____.
a. subject
b. predicate
c. direct object
d. indirect object

Answer 1

. The correct answer is A. subject. A subject is the doer of an action in a sentence - here, the pronoun you is the doer, or rather that word can name presidents.

2. The correct answer is D. direct object. The best way to figure out what the direct object in a sentence is is to ask the question What? or Whom? What/Whom did they elect? - (The 43rd) president.

3. The correct answer is predicate or verb phrase (I can't see the options for this question) - predicate is the verb in a sentence.

4. The correct answer is prepositional phrase. A prepositional phrase follows a preposition - here, the preposition is the word IN.

5. The verb phrase is would have given, and the word him is used as an indirect object of the sentence.