Parts of a Sentence: Subjects and Predicates

What two parts of speech can a simple subject be?

• verb or adverb

• noun or pronoun

• adjective or preposition

What is a sentence called that is missing a subject or a predicate?

• Run-On

• Fragment

• Complete Sentence

What is the Simple Subject of this sentence: Silly kittens sleep on cushions.

• Silly kittens

• kittens

• sleep

• sleep on cushions

Identify the simple subject in the sentence.

• brown

• horse

• appeared

• line

What is the Simple Subject of this sentence:

The blue and purple backpack has polka dots.

• has

• has polka dots

• The blue and purple backpack

• backpack

Identify the simple subject in the sentence.

I believe in ghosts!

• I

• believe

• ghosts

• in

What is the Simple predicate of this sentence:

Mrs. Ross slipped on a banana peel.

• Mrs. Ross

• slipped

• slipped on a banana peel

• Mrs. Ross slipped

Identify the simple subject in the sentence.

• stories

• notebook

• my

• is

Identify the complete subject of the sentence.

• crows

• Black crows

• soared above in the sky.

• Black crows soared above

What is the complete subject of the sentence?

• ran

• Three mice

• across the floor

• mice