Clauses

Define subject?

• What is said about the subject. 
• a person, place, or thing.
• Who or what the sentence is about. 
• a verb

Define predicate.

• The action or state of being of the subject.

• a person, place, thing or idea.

• a group of words that look like a sentence.

• Who the sentence is about

Find the subject: John looked out of the window to check the sky. 

• John
• John looked
• John looked out

Find the complete predicate: My friends are taking guitar lessons.

• guitar lessons.

• are

• are taking guitar lessons.

Find the complete subject of the following sentence:

The horse appeared at the starting line.

• The horse

• horse

• appeared

Find the complete predicate:

The student arrived late to class because he woke up late.

• arrived late to class because he woke up late.

• because he woke up late

• class

What is the simple subject in the sentence below?
Math class will begin in fifteen minutes.

• math
• begin
• fifteen
• class

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1C

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1F

CCSS.L.3.1I

What is the simple subject in the sentence below?
He ran all the way home from school

• He
• ran
• home
• school

What is the simple predicate in the sentence below?
At the movie theater we saw the movie "Trolls".

• movie
• theater
• we
• saw

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1C

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1F

CCSS.L.3.1I

What is the simple predicate in the sentence below?
The hot chocolate tastes sweet.

• hot
• tastes
• chocolate
• sweet

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1C

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1F

CCSS.L.3.1I