Exploring Subjects and Predicates

The video tutorial explains how to identify the subject and predicate in a sentence. It begins with a humorous scenario involving fish in a room, then transitions into a detailed explanation of what subjects and predicates are, using the sentence 'my room smells like fish' as an example. The tutorial further breaks down the concepts into simple subject and predicate, using additional examples to reinforce understanding. The video concludes with a practical application of these concepts in analyzing sentences.

What is the main question that Mark asks Tim and Moby?

• How to clean a room

• How to identify the subject and predicate in a sentence

• How to write a complete sentence

• Why there are fish in the room

In the sentence 'My room smells like fish', what is the subject?

• fish

• smells like fish

• My room

• smells

What does the predicate in a sentence tell us?

• The location of the subject

• Who or what the sentence is about

• Something about the subject

• The time of the action

In the sentence 'My room smells like fish', what is the simple subject?

• fish

• smells

• room

• My room

What is the simple predicate in the sentence 'My room smells like fish'?

• smells like fish

• fish

• My room

• smells

In the sentence 'Moby fishes in the neighbor's pond', what is the subject?

• neighbor

• pond

• Moby

• fishes

What is the predicate in the sentence 'Moby fishes in the neighbor's pond'?

• Moby

• fishes

• in the neighbor's pond

• fishes in the neighbor's pond

What is the simple predicate in the sentence 'Moby fishes in the neighbor's pond'?

• pond

• neighbor

• fishes

• Moby