1. Lesson 2-Complete Subjects and Predicates

2. Lesson 2: Complete Subjects and Complete Predicates
A sentence has two parts – the complete subject and the complete predicate.
The complete subject includes all the words that tell whom or what the sentence is about.
The complete predicate includes all the words that tell what the subject does or is.
******A SENTENCE MUST HAVE BOTH PARTS TO STATE A COMPLETE IDEA!!!!!!*******

3. Lesson 2: Complete Subjects and Complete Predicates
Examples:
Complete Subject
Complete Predicate I
never lost a passenger.
My train
never ran off the track.
Those words
are Harriet Tubman’s.
Her daring rescues
became famous in the 1850’s.
Escape
was often difficult and dangerous.

4. Lesson 2: Complete Subjects and Complete Predicates
In interrogative sentences the complete subject usually comes after part of the complete predicate.
Does Anita’s family enjoy their new home?
Did their possesions arrive safely?

5. Lesson 2: Complete Subjects and Complete Predicates
In imperative sentences the complete subject is not stated directly. YOU is the understood complete subject of an imperative sentence.
(YOU) Ask Anita about her homeland.
(YOU) Tell me about your heritage.

6. Guided Practice
Directions: Identify the complete subject and the complete predicate of each sentence. Draw one line under the complete subject and two lines under the complete predicate.
Harriet Tubman was a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad.
This great woman guided runaway slaves.
The Underground Railroad showed the way to Canada.
Runaway slaves followed this route.
More than three hundred “passengers” traveled with Tubman.
Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery in 1849.