Complete Subjects and Predicates
A complete predicate
What is a verb with words that describe what the subject is or does?
The simple subject of “He shows teamwork."
What is "He"?
Two or more subjects joined by a coordinating conjunction.
What is a compound subject?
Receives the action from the verb in a sentence.
What is a direct object?
This type of word follows a linking verb and renames the subject.
This type of word follows a linking verb and renames the subject.
A group of words starting with a preposition and ending with a noun or pronoun.
The "Shrek and his famiy" part in "Shrek and his family live in the swamp."
What is the complete subject?
The simple predicate of “The bird sang beautifully."
“sang."
Two or more verbs joined by a coordinating conjunction.
What is a compound predicate?
This type of object tells to whom or for whom the action of a verb is done and usually appears before the direct object without a preposition.
What is an indirect object?
This type of word follows a linking verb and describes the subject.
What is a predicate adjective?
The preposition in “The book is on the table.”
What is "on"?
The complete subject and complete predicate in this sentence "The energetic puppy with the red collar barked loudly at the mail carrier."
What are “The energetic puppy with the red collar” (complete subject) and “barked loudly at the mail carrier” (complete predicate)?
The simple subject in "Crank that!"
What is the implied subject, "you"?
The compound subject in “The brave knight and knightly donkey fought the dragon."
What is knight and donkey?
The indirect object in “She gave her friend a gift.”
What is "friend"?
In the sentence “My brother is a firefighter,” the word firefighter is this kind of subject complement.
What is a predicate noun?
The prepositional phrase in “Hamlet, with the heart of an emo, walked to leave everything."
What is "with the heart of an emo"?
The complete subject of “The showing shows shining shows.”
What is "The showing"?
In this sentence, it is the simple subject, yet it usually describes a verb: The action kicks the child."
What is "action"?
The compound predicate in “The running cat ran and jumped to go to the roof.”
What are "ran" and "jumped"?
The indirect object in “He sent him 'an offer that you cannot refuse' from the mafia boss."
What is "him"?
The sentence # that features a predicate adjective:
1) The roses smell sweet.
2) I smell the roses.
What is sentence #1?
The object of the preposition in "To feel empowered, Princess Fiona, knowing to return to the castle was an impossible task, packed her things and left."
What is "castle"?
The complete predicate in the sentence "Great is Mr. Kern."
What is "Great is"?
The difference between a simple subject and simple predicate.
The simple subject names who or what the sentence is about; the simple predicate tells what the subject does or is.
The compound predicate in the sentence "To go and be, while going and being, went and were gone.
What are "went" and "were gone"?
The object complement in “They elected Lola Culver City Middle School president"
What is "president"?
The subject in “To err is human”
What is "To err."?
The adjectival prepositional phrase in "Fingers raising to strike flints aflame, the protestors of the ogres burned the swamp to the ground."
What is "of the ogres"?