Subjects
What is the simple subject in this sentence: Cathy ate bread for dinner.
Cathy
What is the simple predicate in this sentence?
Cathy ate bread for dinner.
Ate
What is a sentence?
A group of words that express a complete thought
Is the following a sentence?
She ate.
No
What is the complete subject of this sentence: The old clock chimed at noon.
The old clock
What is the complete predicate of the following sentence?
Jill ate her snack after school.
ate her snack after school.
The part of the sentence that tells who or what is called the __________.
Subject
What is a noun?
Person place or thing
What type of subject is underlined? Chris and Sally went to dinner at five PM.
Compound subject
What type of predicate is underlined?
Billy played video games and sat on the couch.
compound predicate
The part of the sentence that tells what the subject does is the ________
Predicate
List 3 pronouns
She, her, them, he, his, I, it, they, we
Restate the sentence to form a compound subject.
Jill did her homework.
John did his homework.
Restate the sentences to form a compound predicate:
She ate an apple.
She drank her milk.
She ate an apple and drank her milk.
What is a pronoun?
Takes the place of a proper noun.
What two things should we remember when writing a sentence.
Capitalization and Punctuation
What type of subject is underlined?
Mount Rushmore is a beautiful place.
Noun phrase
What is the simple predicate?
What type of verb is the simple predicate?
The Lord is my shepherd.
Is
Helping verb
What is a noun phrase?
More than one word that names something
What are five of our helping verbs?
am, is, are, be, being, been, have, has, had, will, was, were, do, may, can, must