And the Subject is...
The subject in the sentence: Give me one reason not to give you a detention.
What is "me"?
The direct object in the sentence: I ate an apple.
What is apple?
The verb in the sentence: History has its eye on you.
What is has?
What is on the table?
The part of speech that connects a noun or pronoun to the rest of the sentence.
What is a preposition?
The subject in the sentence: She finished her homework so she could go to the dance.
What is She?
What is house?
The verb in the sentence: The baby viciously cried because his mother left him in the crib.
What is cried?
The prepositional phrase in the sentence: She walked slowly around the table.
What is around the table?
This is the question you ask of the verb to find the direct object?
What is what or who is the recipient of the action?
The subject in the sentence:Because of all the crowds inside of the store, Jack decided he would not go to WalMart any longer.
What is Jack?
The direct object in the sentence: They promised themselves they would arrive on time.
What is themselves?
This is the verb or verb phrase in the following sentence: My friends are playing outside.
What is "are playing"?
The preposition in the sentence: The letter arrived after a long time.
What is after?
You will never find the subject here.
What is inside a prepositional phrase?
The subject in the sentence: Neither the students nor the teacher remembered the test.
What is teacher?
The direct object in the sentence: The chef prepared spicy jambalaya and a fresh salad?
What is jambalaya and salad?
The main verb in the phrase: She seemed happy because she won the race.
What is seem?
The prepostional phrase or phrases in the sentence: During the storm the lights flickered in the basement.
What are during the storm and in the basement?
This is why you need to identify the subject and verb of a sentence.
What is to ensure subject and verb agreement?
What is deer?
The direct object in: Did he really just buy that ridiculously expensive, bright neon green bicycle?
What is bicycle?
The verb or verb phrase in the sentence: The mysterious package could have been left in the attic.
What is could have been hidden?
The prepositional phrase or phrases in the sentence: In the morning they debated for what seemed like hours for the new quarter of the year.
What are in the morning, for what seemed like hours, for the new quarter and of the year?
This is the reason we are spending time on grammar.
What is to become better writers?