Read the following sentences. Then answer questions 14-18 regarding the underlined words.
1) 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.
In sentence 1, the underlined word is ______.
(1 point)
Responses

a subject
a subject

a predicate
a predicate

an indirect object
an indirect object

none of the above
none of the above
none of the above
The correct answer is "none of the above". The underlined word in sentence 1 is "can", which is a modal verb indicating ability or possibility. It is not serving as a subject, predicate, or indirect object in the sentence.
To identify the underlined word in sentence 1, let's go through the given options:
a) Subject: The subject is the noun or pronoun that performs the action of the verb in a sentence. In sentence 1, the phrase "How many U.S. presidents" is the subject, but it is not underlined.
b) Predicate: The predicate is the part of the sentence that contains the verb and provides information about the subject. In sentence 1, there is no verb following the underlined part.
c) Indirect object: The indirect object is a noun or pronoun that receives the direct object. There is no direct object or verb in sentence 1, so there is no indirect object.
Considering the options provided, none of them correctly represents the underlined word in sentence 1. Therefore, the correct answer is "none of the above."