Understanding Subjects and Predicates

What is the main function of a subject in a sentence?

• To provide additional information

• To tell whom or what the sentence is about

• To describe the action

• To connect clauses

In the sentence 'Lightning struck,' which part is the predicate?

• Lightning

• Struck

• Lightning struck

• None of the above

In the sentence 'Into the sky soared the company's jet,' what is the subject?

• Into the sky soared

• Into the sky

• The company's jet

• Soared

Identify the subject in the sentence: 'Countries vary in size and population.'

• Vary

• Countries

• In size and population

• Size and population

In the sentence 'Both the director and the screenwriter were fired,' what is the predicate?

• Both the director and the screenwriter

• Were fired

• The director and the screenwriter

• Fired