Subjects and Predicates

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What is a subject in a sentence?

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The subject is the part of a sentence that tells who or what the sentence is about.

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What is a predicate in a sentence?

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The predicate is the part of a sentence that tells what the subject does or is.

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What is a simple subject?

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The simple subject is the main word or words in the subject of a sentence, without any modifiers.

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What is a complete subject?

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The complete subject includes the simple subject and all the words that describe it.

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What is a simple predicate?

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The simple predicate is the main verb or verb phrase in the sentence.

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What is a complete predicate?

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The complete predicate includes the verb and all the words that tell what happened in the sentence.

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Identify the simple subject in this sentence: 'The dog barked loudly.'

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dog

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Identify the complete subject in this sentence: 'The big brown dog barked.'

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The big brown dog

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Identify the simple predicate in this sentence: 'The cat sleeps.'

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sleeps

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Identify the complete predicate in this sentence: 'The children played in the park.'

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played in the park