Subjects & Predicates Practice

Identify the simple subjects and simple predicates in the following sentence:
Reptiles eat and digest big meals.

• Reptiles; meals
• Reptiles; eat
• Reptiles; eat and digest
• eat; digest

Identify the simple subjects and simple predicates in the following sentence:
Some snakes give off a terrible smell.

• snakes; give
• snakes; terrible
• smell; give off
• Some; give

What is the complete subject of this sentence?
The cat ran away.

• The cat
• ran away
• cat
• ran

What is the subject of a sentence?

• the verb
• the action in the sentence
• the noun that tells who are what the sentence is about
• the preposition

What is the predicate of a sentence?

• Who the sentence is about
• the verb that tells what the subject is or does
• noun or pronoun
• adverb or adjective

What is the complete predicate of this sentence?
Friday is the best day of the week.

• Friday
• is the best day of the week
• is
• of the week

What is the complete subject of this sentence?
The turtle is swimming in the ocean.

• The turtle
• is swimming in the ocean
• turtle
• is swimming

What is the complete subject of this sentence?
Friday is the best day of the week.

• Friday
• is the best day of the week
• is
• of the week

What is the complete predicate of the sentence?
The turtle is swimming in the ocean.

• The turtle
• is swimming in the ocean
• is
• swimming

What is the simple subject of the sentence below?
Kevin is not going to the ballgame tonight.

• Ballgame
• Kevin
• tonight
• going