Identifying Complete Subjects & Simple Subjects
For each sentence below, choose the answer option that correctly identifies the complete subject and has the simple subject underlined.
Maya and I enjoyed her colorful slides.
A. Maya and I
B. enjoyed her colorful slides
C. Maya and I enjoyed
D. Maya and I enjoyed slides
A. Maya and I
For each sentence below, choose the answer option that correctly identifies the complete subject and has the simple subject underlined.
Professor Chung told us about her family home in Shanghai.
A. Professor Chung told us about her family home
B. Professor Chung
C. Professor Chung
D. told us about her family home in Shanghai
B. Professor Chung
For each sentence below, choose the answer option that correctly identifies the complete predicate and has the verb or verb phrase underlined.
A bricklayer mended the walls of the garden.
A. A bricklayer mended
B. mended the walls of the garden
C. mended the walls
D. the walls of the garden
B. mended the walls of the garden
For each sentence below, choose the answer option that correctly identifies the complete predicate and has the verb or verb phrase underlined.
Five students helped us with the flyers about the club meeting.
A. Five students helped us
B. helped us with the flyers
C. helped us with the flyers about the club meeting
D. with the flyers about the club meeting
C. helped us with the flyers about the club meeting
Choose the answer option that identifies each of the following sentences as a simple
sentence or a compound sentence and also classifies the sentence as a declarative,
imperative, interrogative, or exclamatory sentence. The correct answer option should also identify the correct end mark of punctuation for the sentence.
Study and learn about the bird’s habits
A. simple; declarative; period
B. simple; imperative; period
C. simple; interrogative; question mark
D. simple; exclamatory; exclamation point
E. compound; declarative; period
F. compound; imperative; period
G. compound; interrogative; question mark
H. compound; exclamatory; exclamation point
B. simple; imperative; period
For each sentence below, choose the answer option that correctly identifies the complete subject and has the simple subject underlined.
On Saturday mornings, they meet early at a diner in Soho.
A. On Saturday mornings
B. On Saturday mornings they
C. they
D. meet
C. they
For each sentence below, choose the answer option that correctly identifies the complete subject and has the simple subject underlined.
My first reaction was a big shout of surprise.
A. My first reaction
B. My first reaction
C. My first reaction was
D. was a big shout of surprise
A. My first reaction
For each sentence below, choose the answer option that correctly identifies the complete predicate and has the verb or verb phrase underlined.
The group will divide into pairs.
A. group will divide
B. will divide into pairs
C. group will divide
D. will divide into pairs
B. will divide into pairs
For each sentence below, choose the answer option that correctly identifies the complete subject and has the simple subject underlined.
Have Erma and her brother called you yet?
A. Have Erma and her brother
B. Erma and her brother
C. Have called you yet
D. Erma and her brother called you
B. Erma and her brother
Choose the answer option that identifies each of the following sentences as a simple
sentence or a compound sentence and also classifies the sentence as a declarative,
imperative, interrogative, or exclamatory sentence. The correct answer option should also identify the correct end mark of punctuation for the sentence.
Purple martins live on marshland and nest in high, square birdhouses
A. simple; declarative; period
B. simple; imperative; period
C. simple; interrogative; question mark
D. simple; exclamatory; exclamation point
E. compound; declarative; period
G. compound; interrogative; question mark
H. compound; exclamatory; exclamation point
F. compound; imperative; period
A. simple; declarative; period
For each sentence below, choose the answer option that correctly identifies the complete subject and has the simple subject underlined.
Did Ellen and her friend from out of town go to the game?
A. Ellen and her friend
B. Did Ellen and her friend from out of town
C. go to the game
D. Ellen and her friend from out of town
D. Ellen and her friend from out of town
For each sentence below, choose the answer option that correctly identifies the complete subject and has the simple subject underlined.
In the tiny nation of Niue live about 1,700 people.
A. In the tiny nation of Niue
B. In Niue
C. live about 1,700 people
D. about 1,700 people
D. about 1,700 people
For each sentence below, choose the answer option that correctly identifies the complete predicate and has the verb or verb phrase underlined.
The flag was flying over the fort.
A. flag was flying
B. was flying
C. was flying over the fort
D. was flying over the fort
D. was flying over the fort
For each sentence below, choose the answer option that correctly identifies the complete predicate and has the verb or verb phrase underlined.
Pack your lunch for school now.
A. Pack your lunch for school now
B. your lunch for school now
C. Pack your lunch
D. lunch for school now
A. Pack your lunch for school now
Choose the answer option that identifies each of the following sentences as a simple
sentence or a compound sentence and also classifies the sentence as a declarative,
imperative, interrogative, or exclamatory sentence. The correct answer option should also identify the correct end mark of punctuation for the sentence.
Does the bird fly south in the fall, and does it nest in the spring
A. simple; declarative; period
B. simple; imperative; period
C. simple; interrogative; question mark
D. simple; exclamatory; exclamation point
E. compound; declarative; period
F. compound; imperative; period
G. compound; interrogative; question mark
H. compound; exclamatory; exclamation point
G. compound; interrogative; question mark
For each sentence below, choose the answer option that correctly identifies the complete subject and has the simple subject underlined.
The Sears Tower and the John Hancock Center are in Chicago.
A. The Sears Tower and the John Hancock Center
B. The Sears Tower and the John Hancock Center
C. Tower and Center are in Chicago
D. are in Chicago
A. The Sears Tower and the John Hancock Center
For each sentence below, choose the answer option that correctly identifies the complete predicate and has the verb or verb phrase underlined.
Did you see and hear the red-headed woodpecker?
A. Did see and hear the red-headed woodpecker
B. see and hear the woodpecker
C. Did see and hear
D. see and hear the red-headed woodpecker
A. Did see and hear the red-headed woodpecker
For each sentence below, choose the answer option that correctly identifies the complete predicate and has the verb or verb phrase underlined.
Female birds usually do not have colorful feathers.
A. Female birds do not
B. do not have colorful feathers
C. usually do not have
D. usually do not have colorful feathers
D. usually do not have colorful feathers
For each sentence below, choose the answer option that correctly identifies the complete subject and has the simple subject underlined.
Behind his desk was a large, oddly shaped package.
A. Behind his desk was
B. a large, oddly shaped package
C. was a large package
D. his desk oddly shaped package
B. a large, oddly shaped package
Choose the answer option that identifies each of the following sentences as a simple
sentence or a compound sentence and also classifies the sentence as a declarative,
imperative, interrogative, or exclamatory sentence. The correct answer option should also identify the correct end mark of punctuation for the sentence.
How excited we were about that
A. simple; declarative; period
B. simple; imperative; period
C. simple; interrogative; question mark
D. simple; exclamatory; exclamation point
E. compound; declarative; period
F. compound; imperative; period
G. compound; interrogative; question mark
H. compound; exclamatory; exclamation point
D. simple; exclamatory; exclamation point
For each sentence below, choose the answer option that correctly identifies the complete subject and has the simple subject underlined.
Set the table for eight people.
A. Set the table
B. (You) set the table
C. set for eight people
D. (You)
D. (You)
For each sentence below, choose the answer option that correctly identifies the complete predicate and has the verb or verb phrase underlined.
Do Pakistan and Iran share a common border?
A. Do Pakistan and Iran share
B. Do share a common border
C. Do Pakistan and Iran share border
D. share a common border
B. Do share a common border
For each sentence below, choose the answer option that correctly identifies the complete predicate and has the verb or verb phrase underlined.
Actor Dustin Nguyen was born in Vietnam and lived there for twelve years.
A. Nguyen was born and lived there
B. was born and lived there for twelve years
C. Actor was born and lived
D. was born and lived there for twelve years
D. was born and lived there for twelve years
For each sentence below, choose the answer option that correctly identifies the complete predicate and has the verb or verb phrase underlined.
Marshall coached a little league team and did a great job.
A. Marshall coached little league
B. coached little league and did a great job
C. coached a little league team and did a great job
D. coached and did
C. coached a little league team and did a great job
Choose the answer option that identifies each of the following sentences as a simple
sentence or a compound sentence and also classifies the sentence as a declarative,
imperative, interrogative, or exclamatory sentence. The correct answer option should also identify the correct end mark of punctuation for the sentence.
Once cardinals built a nest in our rosebushes, and they raised their young there
A. simple; declarative; period
B. simple; imperative; period
C. simple; interrogative; question mark
D. simple; exclamatory; exclamation point
E. compound; declarative; period
F. compound; imperative; period
G. compound; interrogative; question mark
H. compound; exclamatory; exclamation point
E. compound; declarative; period