3. The whole prepositional phrase is " by landscapers, collectors, and tourists"
4. What is the compliment?
Everything else is correct!!
Identify the subject, verb, compliment and prepositional phrase
1. Native cactuses in the Southwest are in trouble.
2. Some species are already vulnerable to eventual extinction.
3. Cactuses are being threatened by landscapers, collectors, and tourists.
4. Many people harvest these wild plants.
5. There are many unique and unusual species in Arizona.
1, cactuses-sub, are-verb, in the southwest, in trouble-pp
2, species-sub, are-verb, vulnerable-comp, to extintion-pp
3. cactuses-sub, are being-v, threatened-comp, by landscapers-pp
4. people-s, harvest-v,
5. species-sub, are-v, in ariziona-pp
8 answers
4. these-compl
No.
I left out a word in # 4.
Many people illegally harvest these wild plants.
So would the compliment be illegally?
Many people illegally harvest these wild plants.
So would the compliment be illegally?
No. Illegally is an adverb; these is used as an adjective. This compliment is a noun.
How did you get most of these questions right, but not this one?
How did you get most of these questions right, but not this one?
There is no complement in #4. There's a direct object, though. Do you see it?
Isn't plants an object complement?
"plants" is the direct object in that sentence. It's not describing anything.