Simple and Compound Subjects

Simple & Compound

Subjects and Predicates

​OBJECTIVES

• ​Recap subjects and predicates

• ​Explain the difference between simple and compound subjects and predicates

• ​Identify simple and compound subjects and predicates in sentences

​Let's Recap

​What are subjects and predicates?

​Subjects & Predicates

• ​SUBJECT: the naming part of a sentence

  • ​contains the main noun/nouns

  • ​is the part of the sentence that comes to the left of the verb

  • ​the entire subject is called the complete subject

• ​​PREDICATE: the telling part of a sentence

  • ​contains the main verb/verbs

  • ​is made up of the verb and everything that comes after it

  • ​the entire predicate is called the complete predicate

Multiple Choice

What is the complete subject of a sentence?

• the verb

• the action in the sentence

• tells who or what the sentence is about

Multiple Choice

What is the complete predicate of a sentence?

• Who or what the sentence is about

• tells what the subject does or is

Multiple Choice

What part is the complete subject of this sentence?

The striped ball rolled down the hill.

• rolled down the hill

• The striped ball

Multiple Choice

What part of the sentence is the complete subject?

An itsy-bitsy spider crawled under your beach towel.

• An itsy-bitsy spider

• crawled under your beach towel

Multiple Choice

What part of the sentence is the complete predicate?

The black and brown puppy may have been bought already.

• may have been bought already

• the black and brown puppy

Multiple Choice

What is the complete predicate of this sentence?

That incredibly high roller coaster causes people to scream.

• That incredibly high roller coaster

• to scream

• causes people to scream

​SIMPLE & COMPOUND SUBJECTS

​A simple subject is:

• ​the main noun within the complete subject

• ​one person/place/thing/idea

• can be a common noun or a proper noun

• ​

• ​E.g.: Juan is playing football.

Multiple Choice

What is the simple subject?
Judge Lane presided over municipal court. 

• presided
• court
• Judge Lane
• Judge

Multiple Choice

Identify the simple subject.
Buses to downtown had standing room only. 

• Buses
• room
• Buses to downtown
• had

Multiple Choice

Identify the simple subject. 
The subways were nearly empty during the late night hours. 

• The 
• were empty
• hours
• subways

Multiple Choice

What is the simple subject?
Trucks at the airport dropped off the packages for morning delivery to the coast.

• Trucks
• packages
• the coast
• Trucks at the airport

​A compound subject:

• ​when two or more nouns are written in the subject

• ​identified with the conjunctions 'and' or 'or'

• ​

• ​E.g.: Juan and June are playing football.

• ​E.g: Juan or June are going to play football.

Multiple Choice

_{What is the compound subject in the sentence below?}
John and Kate walked to the park.

• John
• John and
• John and Kate
• Kate

Multiple Choice

What is the compound subject?
Shawn and Mia eat ice cream.

• Shawn
• Shawn and Mia
• eat ice cream.
• Mia

Multiple Choice

_{What is the compound subject?
The dog or the bird were bought.}

• The dog or the bird
• were bought
• The dog
• The dog or the

​Simple Predicate

• when only one verb is used in the sentence

• ​can be a verb phrase (linking + action verb)

• ​

• ​E.g.: Juan is playing football.

• ​E.g.: Juan plays football.

Multiple Choice

What is the simple predicate of this sentence? James and his friend George played catch with the football.

• James
• James and his friend George
• played
• played catch with the football

Multiple Choice

What is the simple predicate of this sentence? My father told me to turn off the lights.

• father
• my father
• told
• told me to turn off the lights

Multiple Choice

Identify the simple predicate:
Attractive pottery items start with a lump of clay. 

• lump
• start
• pottery items
• clay

​Compound Predicates

• ​when two or more verbs are used in a sentence

• ​both verbs relate to the same subject

• ​will have the conjunction 'and' to indicate more than one verb

• ​

• ​E.g: Juan likes and plays football.

• ​E.g.: June visits her grandmother and sleeps over, too.

Multiple Choice

Determine whether the underlined portion of the sentence is the compound subject or compound predicate, or neither.

At the park, I like to climb on monkey bars and play on the slides.

• compound subject

• compound predicate

• neither

Multiple Choice

Determine whether the underlined portion of the sentence is the compound subject or compound predicate, or neither.

Classmates and teammates make great friends.

• compound subject

• compound predicate

• neither

Multiple Choice

My friends and I went to the skate park after school.

• Compound subject

• Compound predicate/verb

• Both

• Neither

Multiple Choice

One word to tell what the sentence is about

• complete subject

• simple subject

• complete predicate

• simple predicate

Multiple Choice

Determine whether the underlined portion of the sentence is the compound subject or compound predicate, or neither.

Every Friday, my teacher is in a good mood.

• compound subject

• compound predicate

• neither

Multiple Choice

Determine whether the underlined portion of the sentence is the compound subject or compound predicate, or neither.

Valentine's Day and Presidents' Day are in the same long weekend this year.

• compound subject

• compound predicate

• neither