Basic Parts of a Sentence

This part of a sentence tells who or what the sentence is about.

• Subject

• Predicate

• Object

• Clause

The simple subject will always be a

• pronoun

• noun

• noun or pronoun

• verb or verb phrase

The simple ________________ is the verb or verb phrase of the sentence.

• subject

• preposition

• pronoun

• predicate

What are the 3 basic parts of every sentence?

• subject, predicate, complete thought

• subject, predicate, direct object

• subject, adverb, complete thought

• predicate, complete thought, prepositional phrase

What is the simple subject? 
The airport terminal was crowded with holiday travelers. 

• The airport terminal
• terminal
• was crowded
• travelers

Identify the simple subject in the sentence.

The brown horse with the star on its forehead appeared at the starting line.

• brown

• horse

• star

• forehead

Identify the simple subject in the sentence.

To my surprise, I was chosen as Student of the Month!

• surprise

• I

• Student of the Month

• was chosen

Identify the simple subject of the sentence.

John's little brother is playing on the soccer team.

• John's

• little

• brother

• soccer team

Identify the simple subject and simple predicate of the following sentence:

My sister's old yellow cat stares at me every night.

• S = cat, P = yellow

• S = cat, P = stares

• S = sister, P = stares

• S = me, P = every

What is the simple subject and simple predicate of the following sentence?

The big, black dog from across the street barks all night long.

• S = dog, P = barks

• S = street, P = long

• S = night, P = barks

• S = dog, P = across