Subjects And Predicates

Front 1

Every complete sentence contains a subject and predicate.

Back 1

True

Front 2

The first word is the ___, and the second word is the ___.

Back 2

Subject
Predicate

Front 3

A predicate always includes a real verb.

Back 3

True

Front 4

The subject of a sentence is not the same as the topic of a sentence.

Back 4

True.

Front 5

A ___ subject is just one word.

Back 5

Simple

Front 6

A ___ subject is the simple subject plus the other words that help to identify the simple subject.

Back 6

Complete

Front 7

The subject is usually a ___ or ___, but sometimes it's a gerund, infinitive, or a phrase or clause.

Back 7

noun
pronoun

Front 8

One good way to find the main subject is to find the main ___ and ask what or who is ___ the action described by the verb.

Back 8

verb
doing

Front 9

A subject can consist of two or more things joined by ___.

Back 9

and

Front 10

The subject IS/IS NOT located in a prepositional phrase.

Back 10

Is not

Front 11

If you have a subordinate clause joined to a sentence with a subordinating conjunction, you want the subject that IS/IS NOT in the subordinate clause - the "main" subject will be in the "main" clause of the sentence

Back 11

Is not

Front 12

The subject of a sentence can be a phrase beginning with ___ or ___.

Back 12

that
to

Front 13

Find the subject:

A big, fat, delicious Parmesan sandwich would be amazing right now.

Back 13

sandwich

Front 14

Find the subject:

Earth and the other planets in our solar system orbit around the Sun.

Back 14

Earth and the other planets

Front 15

Find the subject:

None of the guests have arrived.

Back 15

none

Front 16

Find the subject:

Although rapper Tupac Skakur died in 1996, his music has been released on no fewer than eight posthumous albums.

Back 16

music

Front 17

Find the subject:

Because his jokes were so offensive, we left before the show ended.

Back 17

We

Front 18

Find the subject:

There are ten people waiting in the conference room.

Back 18

people

Front 19

Find the subject:

Aside the highway was the wreckage from the crash.

Back 19

wreckage

Front 20

Find the subject:

Each of the women in the study said that her arthritis had gotten worse since beginning therapy.

Back 20

each

Front 21

Find the subject:

Only a thin sliver of the specimen is needed to perform the test.

Back 21

sliver

Front 22

Find the subject:

All of us agree.

Back 22

All

Front 23

There are a bank, a nail salon, and a day care center in this shopping plaza.

Back 23

a bank, a nail salon, and a day care center

Front 24

Amid the weeds and trash was my lost kitten.

Back 24

kitten.

Front 25

True or False:

In the sentence, "Although Italy is famous for pasta, noodles were invented by the Chinese, the dependent clause has the subject Italy and the independent clause has the subject the Chinese.

Back 25

False.

The dependent clause is "Italy is famous for pasta" and its subject is indeed "Italy"
The independent clause is "noodles were invented by the Chinese" It's subject is "noodles"
The verb is "were invented" The prepositional phrase is "By the Chinese"