Every sentence has a subject and a predicate.

A simple predicate is the verb or verb phrase that tells something about the subject.

Simple Predicate

A simple subject is the main noun or pronoun that tells what the sentence is about.

Simple Subject

Simple Subjects and Simple Predicates

Clocks tick.

(Clocks is the simple subject; tick is the simple predicate.)

When identifying simply subjects/predicates, we're only looking for the verb or verb phrase, not the entire rest of the sentence.

Andrea read from the book Of Mice and Men.​

Andrea = SS

read = SP​

Homework: Page 76 #25-45. ​

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