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SUBJECT AND PREDICATE
- Every sentence has two parts
- A subject is the person or thing that is doing an action
- predicate of a sentence sel part that contains the action
The boy ate the apple
The boy subject
ate the apple predicate
PREVIOUS QUESTIONS
1. Identify the subject in the sentence
The first three chapters of the book are written in a beautiful style. ?
(a) The first
(b) The first three
(c) The first three chapters
(d) The first three chapters of the book
Answer : (d) The first three chapters of the book
2. Identify the subject in the sentence
My friend and I went shopping. ?
(a) My friend
(b) My friend and I
(c) My friend and I went
(d) shopping
Answer : (b) My friend and I
3. Identify the subject in the sentence
Next week my grandmother is coming from Delhi. ?
(a) Next week
(b) Next week my grandmother
(c) my grandmother
(d) coming from Delhi
Answer : (c) my grandmother
4. Identify the predicate in the sentence
Sitting on the roof of my house was a huge black bird.
(a) Sitting on the roof
(b) Sitting on the roof of my house
(c) Sitting on the roof of my house was
(d)a huge black bird
Answer : (c) Sitting on the roof of my house was
5. Identify the subject in the sentence
The ozone hole over Antarctica is getting larger every year.
(a) The ozone hole
(b) The ozone hole over
(c) The ozone hole over Antarctica
(d) every year
Answer : (c) The ozone hole over Antarctica
6. Identify the subject in the sentence
On the way from school to home yesterday attemon bus number 21 crashed into a parked car
(a) On the way from school
(b) yesterday afternoon
(c) bus number 21
(d) parked car
Answer : (c) bus number 21
7. Identify the subject in the sentence
In most English sentences the subject comes before the predicate.
(a) In most English sentences
(b) the subject
(c) the predicate
(d) English sentences
Answer : (b) the subject
8. Identify the predicate in the sentence
Waiting by the school gate in the rain was my mother.
(a) Waiting
(b) Waiting by the school gate
(c) Waiting by the school gate in the rain was
(d) in the rain was my mother
Answer : (c) Waiting by the school gate in the rain was
9. Identify the subject in the sentence
At the weekend my mother works at a sports club.
(a) At the weekend
(b) my mother
(c) sports club
(d) At the weekend my mother
Answer : (b) my mother
10. Identify the subject in the sentence
The students of Kennedy school watched the presentation by the Jugglers.
(a) The students
(b) The students of Kennedy school
(c) Jugglers
(d) presentation by the Jugglers
Answer : (b) The students of Kennedy school
11. Identify the subject in the sentence
The big, hungry green crocodile dragged a deer from the river bank.
(a) The big, hungry green crocodile
(b) green crocodile
(c) deer
(d) river bank
Answer : (a) The big, hungry green crocodile
12. Identify the subject of the sentence
The books on the table are mine.
(a) The books
(b) The books on the table
(c) are mine
(d) on the table are mine
Answer : (b) The books on the table
13. Identify the predicate of the sentence
There goes the Principal of our school.
(a) There goes
(b) There goes the Principal
(c) The Principal of our school
(d) of our school
Answer : (a) There goes
14. Identify the predicate of the sentence
In the little house lived seven dwarfs.
(a) In the little house
(b) In the little house lived
(c) seven dwarfs
(d) lived seven dwarfs
Answer : (b) In the little house lived