Hi,
I’m working with a kid who has trouble with parts of speech. I get all the stuff about nouns, verbs, pronouns, etc. But what is this subject/predicate thing, as I don’t remember.
We are using Harry Potter as she loves it.
Here is the question:
The subject is a person, place or thing. I’m fine with that.
So if we have the sentence:
“Lord Voldemort ate chocolate frogs in the chamber of secrets.”
The subject is clearly “Lord Voldemort” but is the predicate:
“ate chocolate frogs” or “ate chocolate frogs in the chamber of secrets”.
?
—des
Re: Subjects and Predicates?
I have my students divide the sentence into the complete subject (all words in the subject) and complete predicate (all words in the predicate).
Complete subject - tell what or who the sentence is about
Complete predicate - tells about the subject or what they did
Lord Voldemort / ate chocolate frogs in the chamber of secrets.
Learn prepositions and the prepositional phrases. in the chamber and of secrets can they be crossed out as they are not the simple subject or the simple predicate.
Lord Voldemort / ate chocolate frogs [u]in the chamber of secrets[/u].
Simple subject - the main word in the subject - Lord Voldemort (excludes any adjectives)
Simple predicate - the main word in the predicate - ate (The simple predicate is the verb and does include any helping verbs.)
If you take the simple subject and the simple predicate, a short sentence will remain. What is left sounds like “cave man” talk.
Lord Voldemort ate.
HTH
Re: Subjects and Predicates?
I have my students divide the sentence into the complete subject (all words in the subject) and complete predicate (all words in the predicate).
Complete subject - tell what or who the sentence is about
Complete predicate - tells about the subject or what they did
Lord Voldemort / ate chocolate frogs in the chamber of secrets.
Learn prepositions and the prepositional phrases. in the chamber and of secrets can then be crossed out as they are not the simple subject or the simple predicate.
Lord Voldemort / ate chocolate frogs [u]in the chamber of secrets[/u].
Simple subject - the main word in the subject - Lord Voldemort (excludes any adjectives)
Simple predicate - the main word in the predicate - ate (The simple predicate is the verb and does include any helping verbs.)
If you take the simple subject and the simple predicate, a short sentence will remain. What is left sounds like “cave man” talk.
Lord Voldemort ate.
HTH
Re: Subjects and Predicates?
My son home schools and we use The Shurley Method. You might want to try it with this kid. It makes a lot of sense and you learn jingles to help you remember. This is the way they would classify the sent. in Shurley:
Lord Voldermort ( subject noun) What’s being said about Lord Voldermort? ATE(verb) Ate what ?frogs (direct object) What kind of frogs?Choolate( adj) In the chamber( prepositional phrase) In (preposition )the (article adj)Chamber (objet of prep) Of secrets (prep phrase) of (prep) Secrets( obj of prep) She then has the student underline the complete subj and complete pred. It seems like an easier way to remember doing it like that. Jan
So if we have the sentence:
“Lord Voldemort ate chocolate frogs in the chamber of secrets.”
The subject is clearly “Lord Voldemort” but is the predicate:
“ate chocolate frogs” or “ate chocolate frogs in the chamber of secrets”.
?
predicate - the part of a sentence or clause that expresses what is said of the subject and that usually consists of a verb with or without objects, complements, or adverbial modifiers. The predicate excludes the subject itself.
Lord Voldemor is the subject, the verb is ate, what he ate is frogs, the word that describes the type of frogs he ate is the adjective chocolate. where he ate them is IN the chamber of secrets… In other words the predicate is ate chocolate frogs…but it is late and I am tired so I may have messed up on this one…tomorrow is another day…
p