Identifying Subject, Predicate, and Sentence Patterns

Linking verbs

Linking verbs connect the subject to the subject compliment, a word or word group that completes the meaning of the subject by renaming it. Example: An email requesting personal information may be a scam. subject verb subject compliment

Subject-Verb-Direct Object

A sentence must have a ______ and _____. It does not need to have a ______.

Transitive verbs and direct objects

A transitive verb takes a direct object, a word or word group that names a receiver of the action. Example: The hungry cat clawed the bag of dry food. subject verb direct object

The complete subject

Includes all the words that tell whom or what the sentence is about. Example: The devastating effects of famine can last for many years. In our program, student teachers work sull-tie for ten months. The highlighted text is the complete subject.

Intransitive verb

Intransitive verb takes no object or complements. Example: The audience laughed. The driver accelerated in the straightaway. Subject Verb flew her small plane...her small plane is the DO flew overhead...verb is followed by an adverb, not a DO

Transitive verbs, indirect objects, and direct objects

The direct object of a transitive verb is sometimes preceded by an indirect object, a noun or pronoun telling to whom or for whom the action of the sentence is done. The simple indirect object is always a noun or pronoun. To test for an indirect object, insert the word to or for before the word or word group in the question. Example: You give her some yarn, and she will knit you a scarf. subject, verb, indirect object, direct object

Subject

The subject of a sentence names whom or what the sentence is about. The simple subject is always a noun or pronoun; the complete subject consists of the simple subject and any words or word groups modifying the simple subject.

The simple subject

To find strip away all modifiers in the complete subject. This includes single-word modifiers such as the and devastating, phrases such as of famine, and subordinate clauses such as that contain multiple subplots. Example: The devastating effects of famine can last for many years. Adventure novels that contain multiple subplots are often made into successful movies. (The highlighted are the simple subjects).

subject after verb

although the subject normally precedes the verb, sentences are sometimes inverted. ex. Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel. *when a sentence begins with the expletive "there" or "it", the subject always follows the verb

Understood subjects

occur in imperative sentences, and (you) is the implied subject.

simple predicate

the verb in the sentence which expresses what is said about the subject