Subject of the sentence: The dark blue mug Simple subject: mug Modifiers of the subject: The dark blue So the simple subject of the above sentence is ‘mug’. Look at the example given below The dark blue mug with the white border at the bottom was my grandma’s favourite mug. But the simple subject of a sentence is the noun or pronoun all by itself. We know that the subject of a sentence includes the noun or pronoun along with all the words that modify, or describe it. Now ask the question What is wrapped? The answer is ‘a gift’, which is the subject of the sentence. What is the subject of this sentence? It’s definitely not ‘There’. There is a beautifully wrapped gift at the door step. Therefore, in a command like this, we can assume that the subject is ‘you’. In such sentences the speaker is giving a command to someone to ‘go open that window’. But, obviously we know the window is not about to ‘go open’. What is the subject of this sentence? The only noun appears in this sentence is ‘window’ and we can see the verb is ‘go open’.
Therefore, were playing in the park is the predicate of this sentence. McQueen’s children is the subject of this sentence.Įxplanation of the predicate: You know the predicate always carries the verb. Now, what’s the subject of this sentence? First find the verb of the sentence: were playing Next ask, who were playing? Yes. McQueen’s children were playing in the park.Įxplanation of the subject: This sentence talks about several different things such as last Friday evening, Mrs. Therefore, in example 2 the subject is the frog and the predicate is jumped over the dog. So the subject is the frog.Įxplanation of the predicate: What does the above sentence tell about the frog? It says that the frog jumped over the dog. So how do we understand who the subject is? In such cases you can ask the question below Who jumped? The answer is the frog. Predicate: cleans (verb) the dishes Therefore, in example 1 the subject is James and the predicate is cleans the dishes.Įxplanation of the subject: There are two animals in this sentence Frog and dog. Also, remember the predicate always includes the verb.
Explanation of the subject: James is the subject of this sentence, because the sentence is telling something about James.Įxplanation of the predicate: What does the above sentence tell about James? It says that James cleans the dishes.
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