Subject and Predicate

Which conjunction belongs in the predicate?

My brother wants to either get a cookie ____ a piece of cake.

What would happen if a sentence were missing a predicate?

• It would not form a complete thought

• It would be a run-on sentence

• The noun and verb would not agree

• It would not be in English

What is true of all predicates?

• They all contain a verb

• They all contain nouns

• They all contain adjectives

• They all contain adverbs

Intelligence, courage, and luck can help people survive.

What is the COMPOUND SUBJECT?

• intelligence, courage and luck

• courage and luck

• can help people survive

• survive

Determine whether the underlined portion of the sentence has compound subject or compound predicate.

At the zoo, they feed the animals and upkeep their habitats.

• compound subject

• compound predicate

Which of these words could be a simple subject?

• Fred

• Said

• The

• Is

What is the subject of the sentence, "My uncle Bob went fishing last Saturday?"

• Fishing

• Uncle Bob

• Saturday

• Last

What are the simple subject and simple predicate?

Miss Whitman loves her students.

• Miss Whitman / loves

• loves / her students

• Miss Whitman / students

• Miss / Whitman

What is the function of a subject in a sentence?

• It describes the meanings of the different words

• It explains the action that's being taken

• It tells you who or what the sentence is about

• It modifies the nouns

Stella climbed to the top of the Empire State Building.

What is the predicate?

• Stella

• climbed

• to the top

• Empire State Building