Subjects
Predicates
Hard-to-Find Subjects
Sentence or Fragment?
Simple, Compound, or Run-On?
100
What is the simple subject in the following sentence? The rolling, green landscape glows against its blue backdrop.
What is landscape?
100
What is the simple predicate in the following sentence? William Butler Yeats started this theater.
What is started?
100
Is James interested in going to the movie?
What is James?
100
Geneticist Warwick Kerr studied honeybees.
What is sentence?
100
Lucy practices jai alai four hours a day.
What is simple?
200
What is the simple subject in the following sentence? Regular rainfall keeps the soil dark and moist.
What is rainfall?
200
What is the simple predicate in the following sentence? He lived during the time known as the Irish Literary Revival.
What is lived?
200
There is a Thai restaurant around the corner from us.
What is restaurant?
200
At the University of São Paulo in Brazil.
What is fragment?
200
The judge banged the gavel, and a hush fell instantly over the courtroom.
What is compound?
300
What is the simple subject in the following sentence? Many mountain ranges rise near the coasts.
What is ranges?
300
What is the simple predicate in the following sentence? Other writers of this age were James Joyce, George Augustus Moore, and George Russell.
What is were?
300
Tuck your pants inside your socks when hiking.
What is (you)?
300
These bees had a savage reputation.
What is sentence?
300
Max rode Lightning through the stream and up the hill
What is simple?
400
What is the simple compound subject in the following sentence? Pink or peach will be the color of the bridesmaids’ gowns.
What are pink and peach?
400
What is the compound predicate in the following sentence? (Include all parts of verb phrases.) Jake baked brownies and cooked pasta for the surprise party.
What is baled and cooked?
400
What a mess your room is!
What is room?
400
Attacked animals and people without warning.
What is fragment?
400
The candle cast a dim glow upon the curtain, the scene looked eerie.
What is run-on?
500
What is the compound simple subject in the following sentence? Books, clothes, and other items had been collected and sold at the fundraiser.
What are books, clothes, and items?
500
What is the compound predicate in the following sentence? (Include all parts of verb phrases.) The tailback slashed, spun, and pounded his way through the opposing team’s defense.
What are slashed, spun, and pounded?
500
Beyond the trees lies a babbling brook.
What is brook?
500
The job was easy, but the pay was low.
What is compound?
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