This really helps with getting rid of jargon in test questions that take up too much brain power. I am bad with focusing on words that don't really hit at the core of the argument so I have blocked them out by just focusing on the "kernel" in the question.
omgg I hope future lessons contain occasional quick tests like this one did. I like how the first "answer" was actually incorrect but made a lot of us skeptical about whether we understood the material. It was a fun little exercise with just the right amount of adrenaline :)
For your subject, ask yourself who is doing the action? Then for your verb, ask what are they doing? Then anything before your verb modifies the subject and anything after your verb modifies the predicate.
New developments in satellite hardware and artificial intelligence imaging software helped archeologists discover tombs of pharaohs once thought to be mythical.
Editing Complex Sentence:
New developments in satellite hardware and artificial intelligence imaging software helped archeologists discover tombs of pharaohs once thought to be mythical.
Developments (Subject) helped (verb) archeologists (object) discover tombs of Pharaohs.
I understand the explanation entirely, but i just want to poke some holes and ask for some clarity lol. The definition of an object is "the thing that the verb acts upon". With this in mind, why is archeologists the object and not be the noun?
Oh no, my writer brain is always stuck on active voice, aka passive sentences are bad. Here, I assumed archaeologists were the subject since they are the ones doing a thing, aka discovering. “Developments” cannot “do” a thing (“helped” in this case), so I missed all of this.
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At this point, I wonder why they put the grammar lessons second after the arguments.
Wouldn't it make more sense to go with grammar first? Just curious what could be the reason(s) not to start the foundation with grammar?
I was close I put new development helped discover tombs.
I think i'v seen this film before
This really helps with getting rid of jargon in test questions that take up too much brain power. I am bad with focusing on words that don't really hit at the core of the argument so I have blocked them out by just focusing on the "kernel" in the question.
Well, I got that about as wrong as one could!
I was ready to throw a chair with the first reveal.
This is actually a little fun
This is freaking amazing oh my goodnes, chile.
omgg I hope future lessons contain occasional quick tests like this one did. I like how the first "answer" was actually incorrect but made a lot of us skeptical about whether we understood the material. It was a fun little exercise with just the right amount of adrenaline :)
#feedback
What the scallop bro, I thought I was doing well until here
For your subject, ask yourself who is doing the action? Then for your verb, ask what are they doing? Then anything before your verb modifies the subject and anything after your verb modifies the predicate.
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Original COMPLEX SENTENCE:
New developments in satellite hardware and artificial intelligence imaging software helped archeologists discover tombs of pharaohs once thought to be mythical.
Editing Complex Sentence:
Newdevelopmentsin satellite hardware and artificial intelligence imaging softwarehelped archeologists discover tombs of pharaohsonce thought to be mythical.Developments (Subject) helped (verb) archeologists (object) discover tombs of Pharaohs.
Phewww feel like I'm in 1st grade circling the subject and predicate on the white board. This part is fun!
So....I got this soooo wrong. My God. I thought archeologist was the subject. Developments was not intuitive.
Cooked
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@mnv449 nah we cooked 🥀
I understand the explanation entirely, but i just want to poke some holes and ask for some clarity lol. The definition of an object is "the thing that the verb acts upon". With this in mind, why is archeologists the object and not be the noun?
@ZoieHoward JK guys, I answered my own question lol
Oh no, my writer brain is always stuck on active voice, aka passive sentences are bad. Here, I assumed archaeologists were the subject since they are the ones doing a thing, aka discovering. “Developments” cannot “do” a thing (“helped” in this case), so I missed all of this.
@studying4lsat123 I am also a writer, and I, too, just made this very same mistake. Great to know I'm not alone!
i enjoyed this one alot
Why is discover not the main verb? How do you determine that it's helped?
It's because developments is the subject. The developments themselves didn't discover, the developments helped the archaeologists do the discovering.
Modifiers create complexity. Complexity leads to confusion. Strip away all the modifiers to see the kernel of a sentence.
1. First ask what is the subject? What is the sentence about?
2. Then ask about the predicate: Where is the verb? What is the subject doing?
#feedback the subtitles are slightly off time about halfway through the video lesson.
Why isn't it: hardware discover tombs?
hardware is a modifier
OOh, this was a good one. Im starting to understand