1st Quarter Parts of Speech Review

Identify the subject of the following sentence. Abasi loved to read books about African mythology.

• "African mythology"

• "Abasi"

• "books"

• "to read"

Identify the subject of the following sentence. Racoons and deer are running wild in our neighborhood and town.

• "neighborhood and town"

• "Racoons and deer"

• "running wild"

• "in our neighborhood"

Identify the independent clause of the following sentence. Before my brother comes home, I need to clean up his kitchen.

• "my brother"

• "comes home"

• "I need to clean up his kitchen"

• "Before"

Identify the predicate of the following sentence. After the concert, Vijay hurried to meet his mother at the mall.

• After the concert

• Vijay

• hurried to meet his mother at the mall

• at the mall

Identify the simple predicate of the following sentence. Dell furiously scribbled her name across her notebook.

• scribbled

• Dell

• across

• her name

Identify the simple subject of the following sentence. A very large green fly landed on her right elbow.

• A very large green fly

• landed

• fly

• landed on her right elbow.

The _______ is the main noun in the sentence. It is the person, place, thing or idea that does the action.

• predicate

• subject

• adjective

• verb

You'll always find a _______ in a predicate.

• verb

• noun

• preposition

• comma

What is a predicate?

• the main person, place, thing or idea in a sentence

• an adjective that describes a noun

• the simple subject

• the action of a sentence

Tags

CCSS.L.5.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

What is the predicate of the following sentence? My friend Leah ate two apples.

• Leah

• my friend Leah

• ate two apples

• apples