Subjects & Predicates

Type the SIMPLE SUBJECT (hint: one word): Over the weekend, Ms. Cory's mom baked a poppyseed cake.

Click on sentence that correctly splits the complete subject from the complete predicate. *Take your time. First, find the action and then ask who or what did that action.

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Type the SIMPLE PREDICATE (hint: one word): Our homeroom celebrated Caroline's birthday on Friday.

Check the SIMPLE SUBJECT: Inside her present hid a tiny gecko. *Think: What is the action? Who or what did the action?

• inside

• present

• hid

• gecko

Check the TWO SIMPLE PREDICATES: Upon noticing the gecko, Ms. Cory screamed and quickly dropped the present.

• gecko, Ms. Cory

• Ms. Cory, present

• noticing, Ms. Cory

• screamed, dropped

Piper the beagle whined and barked a lot.

Select the TRUE statement.

• The sentence has a compound subject.

• The sentence has a compound predicate.

• The sentence has one subject and one predicate.

Piper the beagle whined and barked a lot.

There is a compound predicate. Type the second simple predicate - whined and ______.

Which sentence correctly splits the complete subject from the complete predicate?

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Check the sentence with TWO SUBJECTS:

• My family ate cake and watched Hamilton.

• My mom and dad laughed about the gecko.

• I had a choice between a home cooked meal or eating out.

Check the sentence with TWO PREDICATES:

• Piper and my dad went for a walk.

• I designed and made a new mask.

• The cake was my favorite part of the weekend.