Subject and Predicate

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

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

The simple predicate is the main verb or verb phrase that tells what the subject does.

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

A phrase is a group of words that does not contain a subject and a verb.

A clause is a group of words that contains a subject and a verb.

An independent clause is a group of words that can stand alone as a sentence.

A dependent clause is a group of words that cannot stand alone as a sentence.

The subject tells who or what the sentence is about, while the predicate tells what the subject does.

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