Exploring Simple and Compound Subjects and Predicates

The video tutorial explores the concepts of subject and predicate in sentences. It emphasizes the importance of substantives (nouns and pronouns) and verbs in sentence construction. The video explains simple and compound subjects and predicates, providing examples to illustrate these concepts. It concludes with a summary of the key points discussed.

What are the most important parts of speech in a sentence?

• Nouns and verbs

• Adjectives and adverbs

• Nouns and pronouns

• Conjunctions and prepositions

What is necessary to form a subject in a sentence?

• An adjective

• An adverb

• A noun or pronoun

• A verb

In the sentence 'Charles swims', what is the predicate?

• Swims

• Charles

• Charles swims

• Young Charles

In the sentence 'Young Charles swims slowly', what is the complete subject?

• Charles

• Swims slowly

• Young Charles

• Young

In the sentence 'The spider spreads her web', what is the simple subject?

• Spider

• Spreads

• Spreads her web

• The spider

In the sentence 'The fiery smoke rose upward in billowing volumes', what is the simple predicate?

• Rose

• The fiery smoke

• Rose upward in billowing volumes

• Smoke

What is a compound subject?

• A predicate with one simple predicate

• A subject with two or more simple subjects joined by conjunctions

• A subject with one simple subject

• A predicate with two or more simple predicates

In the sentence 'Sharon and Henry play tennis well', what is the compound subject?

• Sharon and Henry

• Play tennis well

• Henry

• Sharon

In the sentence 'The watch sank and was lost', what is the compound predicate?

• Was lost

• Sank

• Sank and was lost

• The watch

What forms a complete predicate?

• Two or more simple predicates

• Two or more simple subjects

• A simple predicate with words that explain or complete its meaning

• A simple subject with words that explain or complete its meaning