Simple Subjects and Simple Predicates

Simple Subjects and Simple Predicates

by Nedra Holmes-Goodloe

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Identify the simple subject.

Elevators made skyscrapers and high-rises possible.

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Few people would want to walk up 30 or 40 flights to their office or home each day.

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Identify the simple subject.

A man in England was trapped in an elevator for 62 hours!

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

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Identify the simple predicate.

Sometimes the cows ate the grass on the roof.

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Identify the simple predicate.

Once, a cow fell through the roof into the house!

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Identify the simple predicate.

Heavy rains at times soaked through the sod.

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Identify the simple predicate.

The dirt floor turned into a giant mud puddle.

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Identify the simple predicate.

Still, sod houses protected my family from harsh winters.