Subjects and Predicates
All of the words that describe the subject, as well as the subject itself.
What is a complete subject?
A person, place or thing
What is a noun?
A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, forming the main part of the predicate.
What is a verb?
What is an adjective?
What the sentence is specifically about.
What is a simple subject?
a specific person, place, or thing
What is a proper noun?
A helping verb and a linking or action verb. Example: Jamie can run four miles.
What is a verb phrase?
A word that describes a verb.
What is an adverb?
All of the words that describe the subject. It includes all the words that the subject does, has, or is.
What is a complete predicate?
a pronoun used as the subject of a sentence or a clause.
What is a subject pronoun?
A verb that is used with another (two) verb(s) to make a verb phrase.
What is a helping verb?
An adjective derived from a proper noun and describes a noun.(Example: American flag)
What is a proper adjective?
the basic verb or verb phrase that describe the action the subject is doing.
What is the simple predicate?
A pronoun used as an object in a preposition or verb.
What is an object pronoun?
A verb that connects the subject of a sentence to an adjective, noun, or pronoun that completes the meaning of the verb.
What is a linking verb?
Like an adjective or an adverb, make the meaning of another word or group more specific.
What is a modifier?
a subject pronoun that replaces the noun that renames the subject.
What is a predicate nominative?
a pronoun that acts as a subject in a sentence.
What is a nominative pronoun?
The word in the predicate that describes the action that the subject performs.
What is an action verb?
A word that acts like a noun and may be a subject, a predicate nominative, or an object.
What is a gerund?