Find the Main Verb, or Simple Predicate, and type it in the blank. It needs to be spelled correctly. You can copy and paste it to be sure you don't make a mistake. Remember to apply the test--yesterday, right now, tomorrow--if you need to.
Mark drives fifty miles a day to work.
The car skidded on the ice.
Please take out the garbage.
There went our last chance at winning the money.
My sister has taken all the candy.
The boy thought about all the work he had to do.
The children rudely prattled throughout the whole class period.
At 9:37 in the otherwise ordinary morning of May 25, Bobo, a small male chimpanzee in the Monkey House of the Bronx Zoo, achieved total conscious self-awareness.