Exploring Subjects and Predicates in Grammar

What are the two main parts of a clause?

• Subject and Object

• Clause and Phrase

• Subject and Predicate

• Predicate and Verb

What question does the subject of a sentence answer?

• When did it happen?

• Where did it happen?

• Why did it happen?

• Who or what did it?

In the sentence 'John ran', what is the simple subject?

• None of the above

• John

• ran

• John ran

What is the simple predicate in the sentence 'The quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog'?

• lazy brown dog

• jumped

• quick red fox

• fox

What constitutes a complete subject?

• The simple subject plus all the words that go with it

• The entire sentence

• The verb and the object

• The simple predicate plus all the words that go with it

In the sentence 'Carlo wrote a letter to his uncle', what is the complete subject?

• wrote a letter

• Carlo

• Carlo wrote

• Carlo wrote a letter

Identify the complete subject in the sentence 'My neighbor's dog barked all night'.

• My neighbor

• My neighbor's dog

• barked all night

• dog

In the sentence 'Our electricity went out during the storm', what is the complete predicate?

• during the storm

• went out during the storm

• went out

• Our electricity

Why is the sentence 'During the storm, our electricity went out' considered tricky?

• It has no subject

• The predicate comes out of order

• It is a dependent clause

• It has no predicate

In the sentence 'Because it is raining, we canceled the game', what is the complete subject?

• we

• Because it is raining

• we canceled

• canceled the game