Identifying Subjects and Predicates in Grammar

This video tutorial explains the concepts of simple and complete subjects and predicates. It provides examples of different sentence structures, including questions and sentences with prepositional phrases, to illustrate how to identify subjects and predicates. The tutorial emphasizes the importance of recognizing verbs and understanding sentence components to accurately determine the complete and simple subjects and predicates.

What are the two main parts of a sentence?

• Predicate and Verb

• Verb and Object

• Subject and Object

• Subject and Predicate

In the sentence 'The party for Victor is tomorrow,' what is the complete predicate?

• Is

• Is tomorrow

• Tomorrow

• The party for Victor

In the sentence 'The soundtrack of that movie features several Jazz standards,' what is the simple subject?

• Movie

• Features

• Soundtrack

• Jazz standards

Which part of the sentence 'The soundtrack of that movie features several Jazz standards' is a prepositional phrase?

• The soundtrack

• Of that movie

• Features several

• Jazz standards

In the sentence 'Was every club in our school building a float for the parade?' what is the verb?

• Parade

• Building

• Float

• Was

In the sentence 'Was every club in our school building a float for the parade?' what is the complete subject?

• Was every club

• A float for the parade

• In our school building

• Every club in our school building

In the sentence 'Outside in the rain sits my bicycle, some toys, and a pair of pants,' what is the compound subject?

• Bicycle, toys, and pair

• Bicycle, toys, and pants

• Bicycle, toys, and outside

• Bicycle, toys, and rain

What is the simple subject in the sentence 'Neither of these answers is correct'?

• Correct

• Is

• Neither

• Answers

In the sentence 'Outside in the rain sits my bicycle, some toys, and a pair of pants,' what is the complete predicate?

• Outside in the rain

• Sits my bicycle

• Sits my bicycle, some toys, and a pair of pants

• Outside in the rain sits

What should you look out for when identifying subjects and predicates in a sentence?

• Conjunctions

• Interjections

• Prepositional phrases

• Adjectives