By: Riya Thumar
* The subject is the person, place, or thing that is doing an action or the action is happening to the subject. * Ex: The man jumped into the pool.
* The simple subject is a noun or pronoun such as he, she, cat, city,etc. * Ex: She is dressed as an angel.
* The complete subject is a noun or pronoun with an adjective. * Ex: The black cat was awake through the night.
* A compound subject is two or more subjects joined by a conjunction. * Ex: Carrie and Claire are singing on stage.
* The predicate follows the subject and tells where it is, what it acts like, does or what happened to it. * Ex: The tiger jumped into the ring of fire.
* It is a complete verb or a verb and any helping verbs * Ex: The couple was dancing.
* It is a simple predicate plus an adjective. * Ex: The teacher was reading loudly.
* It is one or more predicates with the same subject. * Ex: Tommy was singing quietly and sweetly.
* The simple subject is usually found at the beginning of a declarative sentence. To find eliminate the prepositional phrases and find the noun or pronoun and that is the subject. * Ex: The tiger jumped into the hoop. subject predicate prepositional phrase
* The predicate usually follows the subject. To Find first find the subject and ask what action is happening to the subject and that is the predicate. * Ex: The man jumped into the pool. subject predicate prepositional phrase
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