Typically, a simple sentence consists of a subject and a predicate.
The subject is usually the first element in the sentence, while the rest of thesentence, including the verb, is the predicate. Here are some examplesof subjects and predicates:
The subject is usually the first element in the sentence, while the rest of thesentence, including the verb, is the predicate. Here are some examplesof subjects and predicates:
| subject ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ |
Predicate ــــــــــــــــــــــــ |
subject |
Predicate |
Amy . |
laughed |
Paul |
plays football. |
The house |
is very old. |
| The detectives | interviewed the suspects |
The predicate always contains at least a verb. In these examples, the verbs
are laughed, plays, is and interviewed.
