Subjects and Predicates 1

What is the subject of a sentence?

• what is said about the subject
• a person, place, or thing
• who or what the sentence is about
• the sentence

What is the predicate of a sentence?

• what the subject is or does
• a person, place, thing or idea 
• a group of words that look like a sentence 
• who or what the sentence is about

What is the simple predicate in the following sentence:

Have you seen the latest episode of Grey's Anatomy?

• Seen the latest episode of Grey's Anatomy

• Have seen the latest episode of Grey's Anatomy

• Have seen

• Seen

What is the simple subject in the following sentence:

The amazing, incredible llama won the hearts of everyone when he played the flute at his recital.

• won

• The amazing, incredible llama

• won the hearts of everyone when he played the flute at his recital

• llama

What is the complete predicate in the following sentence:

Take out the garbage before your mom gets home!

• Take out the garbage before your mom gets home!

• before your mom gets home

• "You"

• out the garbage

What is the complete predicate in the following sentence:

Did you put all of the grammar papers into your binder?

• put all of the grammar papers into your binder.

• you

• did put all of the grammar papers into your binder.

• did you put

What is the simple predicate in the following sentence:

The turtle decided that he would no longer race the hare.

• turtle

• decided

• decided that he would no longer race the hare

• The turtle

What is the complete subject in the following sentence:

The girls in fourth grade sang at the concert.

• The girls

• The girls in fourth grade

• sang at the concert

• grade sang

What is the simple subject in the following sentence:



An angry fan was kicked out of the football game for yelling at the ref.

• An angry fan

• was kicked out of the football game for yelling at the ref

• fan

• was

What is the complete subject in the following sentence:

The enormous and powerful Hulk can destroy an entire city within minutes.

• can destroy an entire city within minutes

• can

• The enormous and powerful Hulk

• Hulk