📚 Review: Subjects and Predicates

Subject: The part of a sentence that tells who or what the sentence is about.

Predicate: The part of a sentence that tells what the subject does or is.

Example: The brown dog | barked loudly at the mailman.

(Subject = The brown dog | Predicate = barked loudly at the mailman)

🎯 Part 1: Identify the Subject

1. What is the subject of this sentence? "My little sister loves to read mystery books."

loves

My little sister

mystery books

to read

2. What is the subject of this sentence? "The tall basketball player scored twenty points."

scored

twenty points

The tall basketball player

basketball

3. What is the subject of this sentence? "After school, three friends walked to the park."

After school

three friends

walked

the park

4. What is the subject of this sentence? "During the storm, lightning flashed across the dark sky."

During the storm

lightning

flashed

the dark sky

5. Draw a line between the complete subject and complete predicate in each sentence:

a) The excited children | played games at the birthday party.

b) My grandmother's delicious apple pie | smells wonderful in the oven.

c) The school bus | arrives at exactly 7:30 every morning.

6. Write your own sentence. Then identify the subject and predicate by drawing a line between them.

7. Complete this sentence by adding a predicate: "The fluffy white cat _______________"

8. Complete this sentence by adding a subject: "_______________ won the spelling bee contest."