Subjects & Predicates

What is the purpose of the subject?

• tells who or what the sentence is about

• shows action

• tells what the topic does or is

What is the purpose of a predicate?

• tells who or what the sentence is about

• shows the location of the subject

• tells what the subject does or is

What part of speech is a simple predicate?

• Verb

• Adverb

• Noun

What two parts of speech can a simple subject be?

• verb or adverb

• noun or pronoun

• adjective or preposition

Identify the simple predicate in the sentence.

Pedro finished all of his math homework this afternoon.

• Pedro

• homework

• finished

• math

What is the Simple Subject of this sentence:

The blue and purple backpack has a cosmic design to it.

• has

• has a cosmic design to it

• The blue and purple backpack

• backpack

Identify the simple subject in the sentence.

I believe in ghosts!

• I

• believe

• ghosts

• in

What is the Simple predicate of this sentence:

Duke slipped on a banana peel.

• Duke

• slipped

• slipped on a banana peel

• Duke

  slipped

Choose the simple subject in the sentence.

My writing notebook is full of stories.

• stories

• notebook

• my

• is

Identify the complete subject of the sentence.

Black crows soared above in the sky.

• crows

• Black crows

• soared above in the sky.

• Black crows soared above