Subjects and Predicates

Subjects and Predicates

Language 2

What is a Subject

• The subject of a sentence is the person or thing that DOES THE ACTION.

  
  

• In most sentences (that are active voice), the subject appears early in the sentence. 

• The puppy jumped into the car.

  
  

What is a Predicate?

• The predicate is: “the rest” of the sentence - the parts that explain what the subject is doing!

• •The verb

  •The object of the sentence (if there is one)

  •Other phrases and clauses (like descriptive info) 

• The puppy jumped into the car.

  
  

Multiple Choice

What is a subject?

• The thing doing the action

• The thing receiving the action

Simple Subject

• The ONE WORD that represents the subject: the person’s name, the subject pronoun, or the “main” noun of the sentence.

  
  

• Ignore any articles (a, an, the), adjectives (describing words), or predicate pieces!

  
  

Multiple Choice

What is the simple subject

• The phrase that represents the subject.

• The one word that represents the subject

Simple Predicate

• The MAIN VERB of the sentence... the one or two words that say what the subject is doing!

  
  

• Action verb: jumped, dancing, sing, broke...

  “Being” verbs: is, am, are, was, were, being, been...

  Helping verbs: have, has, had, could, should, would, can, will...

Multiple Choice

A predicate is...

• the main verb

• the main noun

Complete Subject or Predicate

• The simple subject (or predicate) AND any other...

  ●articles

  ●adjectives

  ●prepositional phrases

  ●other clauses/phrases

Multiple Choice

A complete subject needs...

• a noun

• a noun and verb

• a noun and every other part of the sentence

Compound Subject/ Predicate

• Anytime there is TWO subjects or TWO predicates within ONE sentence.

  
  

Multiple Choice

A compound subject/predicate needs...

• two subjects and two verbs

• one subject and one verb

• one subject and two verbs

• at least two subject and/or two verbs