Use morphology and syntax to make grammatical sense of the following sentence.

The ova of all mammals except the monotremes undergo holoblastic segmentation.

What is the simple subject of the sentence?

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Use morphology and syntax to make grammatical sense of the following sentence.

The ova of all mammals except the monotremes undergo holoblastic segmentation.

What is the simple subject of the sentence?

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Do you know what the verb is within this sentence?

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no

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verbs are action / being... what is being done within this sentence?

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they undergo holoblastic segmentation

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Out of that phrase "they undergo holoblastic segmentation" what is the verb?

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undergo

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yup, what is undergoing?

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The ova of all mammals except the monotremes... we have three options right...

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ova, mammals, and monotremes.

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Is there any descriptive phrases within that part of the sentence?

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Do you know what prepositional phrases are?