Subjects & Predicates

What is the predicate of a sentence?

• Who or what the sentence is about?
• tells what the subject is or does

What is the complete subject of this sentence?
The turtle is swimming in the ocean.

• The turtle
• is swimming in the ocean
• turtle
• swimming

True or False:  The subject is in red and the predicate is in blue?
My mom drove us to Chuck E. Cheese's.

• True
• False

What is the SUBJECT in this sentence?
Hudson is learning how to walk.

• Hudson
• is learning how to walk.
• walk.
• Hudson is learning

What is the complete predicate of this sentence?
The class studied whales.

• class
• The class
• studied whales
• whales

What is the complete predicate in the sentence?
She drank her whole glass of milk.

• milk
• She
• drank her whole glass of milk
• drank

What is the complete subject in the sentence?
The music class attended the opera.

• music
• The music class
• attended the opera
• attended

What is the complete predicate in the sentence?
My mom made chocolate chip cookies.

• mom
• cookies
• made chocolate chip cookies
• my mom made

Are the words in red part of the subject or predicate?
The black horse galloped across the meadow

• subject
• predicate

Identify the complete predicate below
After school we are going to the Dairy Queen for ice cream

• After School
• we
• are going to the Dairy Queen for ice cream
• for ice cream