Subjects and Predicates

Front

What is a subject in a sentence?

Back

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

Front

What is a predicate in a sentence?

Back

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

Front

What is a simple subject?

Back

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

Front

What is a complete subject?

Back

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

Front

What is a simple predicate?

Back

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

Front

What is a complete predicate?

Back

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

Front

What is a compound subject?

Back

A compound subject consists of two or more subjects that share the same verb.

Front

What is a compound predicate?

Back

A compound predicate consists of two or more verbs or verb phrases that share the same subject.

Front

Identify the simple subject: 'The dog barked loudly.'

Back

The simple subject is 'dog'.

Front

Identify the complete predicate: 'The cat slept on the couch.'

Back

The complete predicate is 'slept on the couch.'