Subjects and Predicates

The subject of a sentence is the person or thing that DOES THE ACTION.

In most sentences (that are active voice), the subject appears early in the sentence. 

The puppy jumped into the car.

The predicate is: “the rest” of the sentence - the parts that explain what the subject is doing!

•The verb

•The object of the sentence (if there is one)

•Other phrases and clauses (like descriptive info) 

The puppy jumped into the car.

The ONE WORD that represents the subject: the person’s name, the subject pronoun, or the “main” noun of the sentence.

Ignore any articles (a, an, the), adjectives (describing words), or predicate pieces!

The MAIN VERB of the sentence... the one or two words that say what the subject is doing!

Action verb: jumped, dancing, sing, broke...

“Being” verbs: is, am, are, was, were, being, been...

Helping verbs: have, has, had, could, should, would, can, will...

The simple subject (or predicate) AND any other...

●articles

●adjectives

●prepositional phrases

●other clauses/phrases

Anytime there is TWO subjects or TWO predicates within ONE sentence.