Subject/predicate, simple subjects, simple predicates
What does a predicate describe.
It describes what the subject does or is.
Identify the simple subject. The snake has a diamond pattern on its back.
Snake
Identify the complete subject in each sentence. The hungry cat purred for food.
The hungry cat.
What does the complete subject include?
The name of the person, place, or thing the sentence is about and all the words that go along with it.
What is the simple subject
The noun in the subject.
What does a subject name?
The person, place, or thing talked about in the sentence.
What is the simple predicate?
The verb
What is included in the complete predicate?
The verb and all the words relating to it.
Identify the complete subject in the sentence. The white, fluffy sheep ran away from the wolf.
The white, fluffy sheep
What does the complete predicate describe?
What the subject is or does.
Identify the simple subject in the sentence. All the animals are eating the grass in the field.
animals
Identify the simple predicate in the sentence. The crazy cat ate the cheesecake that was left on the table
ate
Identify the simple subject in the sentence. Those cats are scratching the couch.
cats
Identify the complete predicate in each sentence. The annoyed oxen chase the mice out of the barn.
chase the mice out of the barn.
Identify the simple predicate in the sentence. Koda chases the cat up the tree.
chases
Identify the complete predicate in each sentence. The spacecraft had strange alien men with oxen bodies and salmon heads.
had strange alien men with oxen bodies and salmon heads.
Identify the simple predicate in the sentence. The squirrel hid the nuts in the hole of the tree.
hid
Identify the complete predicate in each sentence. The thieves quietly crept through the open window.
quietly crept through the open window.
What are the two parts that every sentence must have?
A subject and a predicate
What questions should you ask to find the subject.
Ask the question "who" or "what" before the predicate.
