Simple Predicate

Find the simple predicate:

Crowds of curious customers have been staring at the unicycle.

• crowds

• curious

• unicycle

• have been staring

Find the simple predicate: Very few children's books existed before 1700.

• children's

• existed

• before

• 1700

Find the simple predicate: Children learned lessons about good behavior from these first books.

• Children

• learned

• lessons

• behavior

Find the simple predicate: Later stories entertained young readers.

• Later

• stories

• entertained

• readers

Find the simple predicate: Many early books were collections of fairy tales.

• were

• collections

• fairy

• tales

Find the simple predicate: These tales are among the oldest kinds of literature.

• tales

• are

• oldest

• literature

Find the simple predicate: People handed fairy tales down from generation to generation.

• People

• handed

• fairy tales

• generation

Find the simple predicate: Two brothers collected German fairy tales during the early 1800s.

• Two

• brothers

• collected

• early

Find the simple predicate: Their names were Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm.

• were

• Jakob

• Wihelm

• Jakob and Wilhelm

Find the simple predicate: German farmers told tales to the brothers.

• told

• tales

• to

• brothers