1st Semester Grammar Review

What is a simple subject?

• verb that the noun/pronoun is doing

• noun or pronoun that is doing the action

Find the simple subject in this sentence:

The college student procrastinated until it was too late to do the assignment.

• procrastinated

• assignment

• student

• college

Find the simple subject:

The basketball player dribbled the ball down the court.

• player

• court

• ball

• basketball

sentences that contain two or more nouns/pronouns doing the action

• simple subject

• complete subject

• complex subject

• compound subject

Find the compound subjects:

The coach and sports director added three outstanding players to my high school roster.

• coach and director

• sports director

• added

• three outstanding players

Find the compound subjects:

The teacher and outstanding students walked quietly outside during the practice fire drill.

• practice fire drill

• teacher and students

• outstanding students

• walked quietly

simple subject and everything that describes the simple subject

• complex subject

• compound subject

• complete subject

• predicate

Find the complete subject:

The purple striped zebra raced in the Kentucky Derby.

• zebra

• purple striped zebra

• The purple striped zebra

• Kentucky Derby

Find the complete subject:

The escaped criminal tried to evade the police after robbing a convenient store.

• robbing a convenient store

• the escaped criminal

• evade the police

• criminal tried

What is a simple predicate?

• the verb that the subject is doing

• noun or pronoun doing the action