Identifying Subjects, Verbs, and Prep Phrases E3
Put parentheses around the prepositional phrase(s) in each sentence. Then underline the subject and bold
the verb.
Ex. One fact (abour William Shakespeare and his work) always surprises people.
1.
There are no copies (of his original manuscripts.)
2.
No museum or library has even one page from a Shakespeare play( in Shakespeare's own handwriting.)
3.
Museums and libraries have copies (of the First Folio instead.)
4.
After Shakespeare's death in 1616, actors from his company gathered the texts (of his plays) and
published them as one book, the First Folio, in 1623.
5. They printed approximately 750 copies (at the time.)
