Subjects and Predicates

Identify the complete subject:
The white blood cells in your blood fight disease.

• The white blood cells
• The white blood cells in your blood
• fight disease.
• The white blood cells in your blood fight

Identify the complete subject:
Your liver stores extra vitamins and minerals.

• liver stores
• stores extra vitamins and minerals
• Your
• Your liver

Identify the complete predicate:
A person's normal body temperature is 98.6˚ F.

• temperature is 98.6˚F
• is 98.6˚ F
• normal body temperature is 98.6˚ F
• A person's

Identify the complete predicate:
Your rib cage protects your lungs from injury.

• Your rib cage protects
• protects your lungs from injury
• your lungs from injury
• rib cage protects your lungs from injury

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.1

What is a simple subject?

• who or what the sentence is about without any describing words
• the verb without any describing words

What is the simple subject in the following sentence?
Four young soldiers led the troops into battle.

• four
• soldiers
• young
• led

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.1

What is the simple subject in the following sentence?
Two beautiful goldfish in the pond were eating the insects on the top of the water.

• beautiful
• eating
• goldfish
• water

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.1

What is the simple predicate in the following sentence?
We played basketball yesterday.

• We
• played
• basketball
• yesterday

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.1

What is the simple predicate in the following sentence?
The hot oven has two trays in it.

• hot
• oven
• has
• it

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

What is the simple predicate in the following sentence?
Billy's favorite cookie is a chocolate chip cookie.

• Billy's
• favorite
• is
• cookie

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6