Simple Subject
The simple subject of the sentence, "Salmon spawn in fresh water."
What is salmon?
The simple predicate of the sentence, "They heard a strange sound."
What is heard?
The complete subject of the sentence, "Two dolphin experts soon arrived at the beach."
What is two dolphin experts?
The complete predicate of the sentence, "Fish have gills."
What is have gills?
This is the main word or word group that tells whom or what a sentence is about.
What is the subject?
The simple subject of the sentence, "Have you ever been to the ocean?"
What is you?
The simple predicate of the sentence, "Most salmon are born in fresh water."
What is are born?
The complete subject of the sentence, "Fish have gills."
What is fish?
The complete predicate of the sentence, "The female fish digs several saucer-shaped nests in the bed of a stream."
What is digs several saucer-shaped nests in the bed of a stream?
This is the main word or word group that tells something about the subject.
What is the predicate?
The simple subject of the sentence, "They moved into the cold surf near the dolphin."
What is they?
The simple predicate of the sentence, "A smolt is a young salmon."
What is is?
The complete subject of the sentence, "The healthy dolphin was released into the ocean several months later."
What is the healthy dolphin?
What is "have been recorded?
The word "student" is this part of the sentence, "The curious student was surfing the internet in the computer lab."
What is the simple subject?
The simple subject of the sentence, "A helpless dolphin was being tossed around by the waves."
What is dolphin?
The simple predicate of the sentence, "The longest spawning trip exceeds two thousand miles."
What is exceeds?
The complete subject of the sentence, "Scientists at the local aquarium cared for the dolphin."
What is scientists at the local aquarium?
The complete predicate of the sentence, "The thousand-mile migration of the salmon fascinates me."
What is fascinates me?
The words "have always enjoyed" are this part of the sentence, "I have always enjoyed your friendly notes."
What is the simple predicate? OR What is the verb phrase?
The simple subject of the sentence, "The thousand-mile migration of the salmon fascinates me."
What is migration?
The simple predicate of the sentence, "Have you ever been to the ocean?"
What is have been?
The complete subject of "Thrashing around in the water was a dark object."
What is a dark object?
The complete predicate of the sentence, "Salmons spawn in fresh water."
What is spawn in fresh water?
This is the part of a sentence that the sentence fragment, "Mr. Liu, an organic farmer with a large farm in Texas" is missing.
What is the predicate? OR What is a verb?