Subject and Predicates

Subject and Predicates

Planner: Chapter 25-26 of Holes: Retelling in Sequence

Chapter 25 and 26

• What do you last remember reading?

• What do you think will happen in these chapters?

• Think and be ready to share out loud.

Open Ended

What is the sequence of the story? Give your best guess if you don't remember.

Open Ended

Today's word is "quivering." What do you think quivering means?

Heads Up

We are going to be dealing with some topics that have happened in the past. Remember that we learn from history to make better choices, not so we repeat it.

Worksheet Time

• What happened first in these two chapters?

• What happened next?

• Then?

• Finally?

Subjects and Predicates

EVERY sentence can be divided into two halves: the complete subject and the complete predicate.

Rules to Remember

• The COMPLETE subject tells whom or what the sentence is about

• The COMPLETE predicate includes the VERB and all the words that tell what happened

Multiple Choice

Which is the complete subject in this sentence? "The red car sped down the highway.

• Car

• sped

• sped down the highway

• The red car

Multiple Choice

Which is the complete predicate in this sentence? "The red car is pretty."

• The red car

• car

• is

• is pretty

A simple subject and predicate

• The simple subject is the MAIN word in the complete subject

• It is ALWAYS a noun or pronoun

• Sometimes, the simple subject is also the complete subject

• The simple predicate is the verb in the sentence

Multiple Choice

What is the simple subject in this sentence? "Cars sped down the highway."

• Cars

• sped

• down the highway

• Cars sped

Multiple Choice

What is the simple subject in this sentence? "The red car sped down the highway."

• The red car

• car

• sped down the highway

• sped

Multiple Choice

What is the simple predicate in this sentence? "The red car sped down the highway."

• The red car

• car

• sped down the highway

• sped

Helping Verb with simple predicate

IF there are helping verbs with the action verb, the helping verbs are part of the simple predicate. This is called a VERB PHRASE

Multiple Choice

What is the predicate in this sentence? "The car was speeding down the highway"

• The car

• was speeding

• was speeding down the highway

• The car was speeding