Subject and Predicate Review

Lesson Plan - Get It!

Audio:

We can make up a sentence about those two guys:

Jim and Andy played an intense game of Forza on Jim's new PS4.

Subject

Sentences are made up of two main parts: a subject and a predicate.

The subject is the noun (person, place, or thing) that is doing the action.

• In the example above, who is performing the action?

Both Jim and Andy are playing the game, so Jim and Andy is the subject.

Remember:

• Subjects can be compound, meaning they can include more than one noun.

• The whole noun phrase - the nouns and the words that modify them - are included in the subject.

• The subject can be a pronoun. For example: They are playing a video game.

Predicate

The predicate is the part of the sentence that tells us what the subject is doing.

Like the subject, it also includes all the words that go with it.

In our example, the complete predicate is: played an intense game of Forza on Jim's new PS4.

Remember:

• Predicates can be compound. For example, we could say: The boys played video games, ate pizza, and fell asleep.

• The whole predicate phrase has to be included - the verbs and the words and/or phrases that modify them, and any prepositional phrases that go along with it. For example: The boys played tirelessly for three hours.

• The predicate can start with a being verb or helping verb also. For example: The girls are going to the mall.

Now write a sentence about the photo below:

Once you've written your sentence, find the complete subject and predicate. Circle the predicate and underline the subject.

When you are ready, continue on to the Got It? section for more practice.