Simple Subjects and Simple Predicates

Simple Subjects and Simple Predicates

by Nedra Holmes-Goodloe

Multiple Choice

Identify the simple predicate.

My great-grandparents lived in a sod house, or “soddy” on the Kansas prairie.

• great-grandparents

• lived

• lived in a sod house, or “soddy” on the Kansas prairie.

Multiple Choice

Identify the simple predicate.

They traveled west from their home in Tennessee.

• traveled

• west

• traveled west from their home in Tennessee.

Multiple Choice

Identify the complete predicate.

The men used nearly an acre of sod for the house.

• used nearly an acre of sod for the house.

• used

• The men used

Multiple Choice

Identify the simple predicate.

The home had only two windows and one door.

• The home had

• had only two windows and one door.

• had

Multiple Choice

Identify the simple predicate .

My family built their soddy in the side of a hill.

• My family

• built their soddy in the side of a hill.

• built