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Subject & Predicate

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Two halves: who (orange) and what they did (green).

Subject & Predicate

Every sentence is built from two halves. Work through each one, then test it on the line.

Complete subject

Complete predicate

Two halves, one complete thought

Every sentence has two parts: who or what it is about, and what they do. Put them together and you have a sentence.

On the line

The dog ran .

Two halves: who (orange) and what they did (green).

Now you try

Put a who or what together with what they do. That is a complete thought.

The complete subject and the simple subject

First, the orange half: the complete subject. It tells who or what the sentence is about. The main word in it is the simple subject. When “and” joins two nouns, like Sam and Mia, both share the job.

On the line

The red dog ran .

“dog” (dashed) is the simple subject.

Now you try

Pick a person, an animal, or a thing. That noun is your simple subject.

The complete predicate and the simple predicate

Now the green half: the complete predicate. It tells what the subject does. Its main word, the verb, is the simple predicate.

On the line

Cats jump .

jump = an action verb, shown in Vinny's red.

Now you try

Add an action word: ran, jumped, sang. That verb is your simple predicate.