2A - ASA1 - Subjects and Predicates

What are the two main parts of a complete sentence?

• Nouns and Verbs

• Subjects and Predicates

• Adjectives and Adverbs

• Questions and Answers

What is the part of a sentence that tells who or what the sentence is about?

• The predicate

• The verb

• The subject

• The object

What is the part of a sentence that tells what the subject is doing?

• The subject

• The predicate

• The noun

• The adjective

To find the subject of a sentence, what question should you ask?

• When did it happen?

• Where did it happen?

• Who or what is the sentence about?

• How did it happen?

To find the predicate of a sentence, what question should you ask?

• What is the subject doing?

• Why did it happen?

• How many?

• Which one?

In the sentence "The dog chased after the ball," what is the subject?

• chased

• the ball

• The dog

• after

In the sentence "The dog chased after the ball," what is the predicate?

• The dog

• chased

• chased after the ball

• the ball

A subject can be a noun, a proper noun, or what other type of word?

• Adjective

• Adverb

• Preposition

• Pronoun

What kind of word does a predicate always start with?

• A noun

• A verb

• An adjective

• An adverb

In the sentence "Josh reads a book everyday," what is the subject?

• reads

• a book

• everyday

• Josh