Subjects and Predicates

Complete Subjects and Complete Predicates

Simple Subjects

• Nouns (Person, Place, Thing, or Idea)

• Pronouns (Take the place of a noun. Ex: I, You, He, She, It)

• The topic of the sentence.

• Who or what is doing or is being.

Multiple Choice

What is the Simple Subject?

The kids in Room 207 were misbehaving again.

• kids

• Room 207

• misbehaving

• again

Complete Subjects

• The simple subject (the noun or pronoun)

• All of the words and phrases that describe the simple subject

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Multiple Choice

What is the Complete Subject?

The kids in Room 207 were misbehaving again.

• The kids

• The kids in

• The kids in Room 207

• The kids in Room 207 were misbehaving again.

Predicate

• Verbs (Show Action or State of Being)

• Action Verbs, Linking Verbs, and Helping Verbs.

• A comment or remark on the subject.

Multiple Choice

What is the Simple Predicate?

The kids in Room 207 were misbehaving again.

• were

• misbehaving

• were misbehaving

• again

Complete Predicate

• The simple predicate (verbs)

• All of the words and phrases that describe the simple predicate.

Multiple Choice

What is the Complete Predicate?

The kids in Room 207 were misbehaving again.

• were

• were misbehaving

• were misbehaving again

• misbehaving

Complete Sentence

A complete sentence has BOTH a Subject and a Predicate.

Examples:

Same subject, different predicates.

• The squirrel in the tree leaped from the branch.

• The squirrel in the tree climbed higher.

• The squirrel in the tree stood still.

• The squirrel in the tree made a clicking sound.

• The squirrel in the tree ate an acorn.

Examples:

Different subjects, same predicates.

• The kids who were playing started to sing.

• Harry, Lisa, and Jamal started to sing.

• Tiffany during the silence started to sing.

• Before the beginning of the game, Harriet started to sing.

• For their performance of the school song, the choir started to sing.

Multiple Choice

Practice: Identify the section of the sentence.

Chester the cat was curled up on the brown velvet armchair.

• Complete Subject

• Complete Predicate

Multiple Choice

Practice: Identify the section of the sentence.

Most dangerous sharks are the ones that are both hungry and mean.

• Complete Subject

• Complete Predicate

Multiple Choice

Practice: Identify the section of the sentence.

The large woman turned around and kicked him right in his blue-jeaned sitter.

• Complete Subject

• Complete Predicate

Multiple Choice

Practice: Identify the section of the sentence.

Smoke and flames were pouring out of the spaces where the windows had been.

• Complete Subject

• Complete Predicate