Subjects and Predicates

What is the simple subject of a sentence?

• the verb

• the action in the sentence

• It tells who are what the sentence is about.

What is the simple predicate (verb) of a sentence?

• Who the sentence is about?

• tells what the subject is or does

What is the subject of this sentence?

Friday is the best day of the week.

• day

• week

• Friday

• is

• the

What is the complete predicate of this sentence?

Mrs. Steen loves her students.

• Mrs. Steen

• loves

• her students

• loves her students

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CCSS.L.3.1A

We try to keep our classroom neat.

What is the subject of this sentence?

• classroom

• Try

• We

• keep

Students at our school try to do their best work. What is the complete subject?

• Try to do their best work

• Try

• Students

• Students at our school

What is the simple subject in this sentence?

The pupil is the round, black center of the eye.

• pupil

• The pupil

• is

• is the round, black, center of the eye.

What is the complete subject in this sentence?

The outer, colored part is called the iris.

• iris

• is called the iris

• The outer

• The outer, colored part

What is the complete predicate in this sentence?

Too much light can damage the eye.

• light

• can

• can damage

• can damage the eye.

Identify the complete predicate below

After school we are going to the Dairy Queen for ice cream.

• After School

• we

• are going to the Dairy Queen for ice cream

• for ice cream