1. By: Riya Thumar

2. * 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.

3. * The simple subject is a noun or pronoun such as he, she, cat, city,etc. * Ex: She is dressed as an angel.

4. * The complete subject is a noun or pronoun with an adjective. * Ex: The black cat was awake through the night.

5. * A compound subject is two or more subjects joined by a conjunction. * Ex: Carrie and Claire are singing on stage.

6. * 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.

7. * It is a complete verb or a verb and any helping verbs * Ex: The couple was dancing.

8. * It is a simple predicate plus an adjective. * Ex: The teacher was reading loudly.

9. * It is one or more predicates with the same subject. * Ex: Tommy was singing quietly and sweetly.

10. * 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

11. * 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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