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Subject/Predicate Notes
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What are Subjects? The person place or thing (noun) that is doing/performing the action or being described. Subjects can be both simple and compound. Answers the question: who or what verbs
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Subject Examples Sentence: The blue pencil sharpener destroyed my colored pencil. Subject: The blue pencil sharpener Sentence: The beautiful mountain looked majestic in the snow. Subject: The beautiful mountain Sentence: Chief tripped the innocent teacher in the hallway. Subject: Chief
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What are Predicates? A piece of the clause that includes the verb and the words that tell what the subject does. Predicates can be both simple and compound Answers the question: What is the subject doing?
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Predicate examples Sentence: Kyle thinks he can dunk the ball.
Predicate: thinks he can dunk the ball Sentence: Trinity handed in her assignment to Mr. McCall. Predicate: handed in her assignment to Mr. McCall Sentence: Ben jumped for joy to write the Text Dependent Analysis. Predicate: jumped for joy to write the TDA
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Simple/Compound subject
Simple Subject: The focus of the sentence disregarding adjectives. The simple subject are noun(s) only. Compound Subject: Generally more than one simple subject combined with coordinating conjunctions- includes adjectives.
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Simple/Compound subject examples
Simple subjects examples: - Mr. Barrie had to fight off a bear in Canada years ago. Simple S. = Mr. Barrie - The dog barked for food. Simple S. = dog Compound examples” - Mr. Gambler and his advisory played silent ball on Friday. Compound S. = Mr. Gambler and his advisory
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Simple/Compound predicates
Simple predicate: The basic word that explains what specific action the subject is doing. Always a verb. Compound predicate: Includes all the words that are attached to the verb or the action. Generally more than just the verb.
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Simple/Compound predicate examples
Simple predicate example: -James Harden scored 61 points the other day. Simple P= scored Compound P= scored 61 points the other day. Example 2: -The Chiefs went offside on a critical play to lose the game. Simple P= went Compound P= went offside on a critical play to lose the game.
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Work on your persuasive essays due Wednesday end of class Make sure your writing has 2 ethos 2 logos and 2 pathos (all identified) Your logos will need citations
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