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20.1 The Sentence (Complete Subjects and Predicates)

• Practice 1
Complete Subjects and Predicates A sentence is a group of words with two main parts: a complete
subject and a complete predicate. Together these parts express a complete thought.
Complete Subjects Complete Predicates

Everyone in our family likes Mexican food.
The house down the street has been for sale for months.
Fish swim.
Exercise 1 Recognizing Complete Subjects and Predicates. On the blank after each
sentence, write S or P to tell whether the underlined word or group of words is the complete subject or
the complete predicate.
EXAMPLE: The bike with the missing reflector is mine. P
1. Azaleas do well in acid soil.
2. The last essay question was really challenging.
3. Most of the students in my class study hard.
4. The player with the most points at the end of the game loses.
5. Weather forecasters predict another storm front from the west.
6. The first volunteer fire company in the United States was in Philadelphia.
7. Benjamin Franklin organized it.
8. Franklin was once ambassador to France.
9. Many American towns and cities are named for places in England.
10. You may have a little trouble with the lock.
Exercise 2 Identifying Complete Subjects and Predicates. In each sentence underline the
complete subject once and the complete predicate twice.
EXAMPLE: The tall ships sailed up the Atlantic Coast.
1. Several members of that family have served in the armed forces.
2. Louise borrowed my sweater last week.
3. A pane in one of the bedroom windows cracked.
4. Lemmings follow their leader to their death.
5. A portrait of my grandmother hangs above the mantel.
6. The first pianist on the program seemed nervous.
7. All the children in the neighborhood enjoyed the new playground.
8. Searchlights from the rescue ships flashed across the water.
9. The fans of the losing team groaned.
10. Philip or his brother will surely help you.
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• Practice 2
Exercise 1 Recognizing Complete Subjects and Predicates. In each sentence, underline each
complete subject once and each complete predicate twice.
EXAMPLE: The tall pine trees swayed in the wind.
1. The car swerved away from the child.
2. My favorite radio station plays all of the hit songs.
3. Grandfather Kim owns an art gallery in Chicago.
4. Mexico City was built on a lake.
5. The evening news summarizes the day’s events.
6. Shakespeare’s father was a glove maker.
7. Computers process information very quickly.
8. My older brother has a telephone shaped like Mickey Mouse.
9. The bags of coins were placed in an armored truck.
10. Damascus, the capital of Syria, has been continuously inhabited for over four thousand years.
11. Mr. Axelrod worked for years as a traveling salesman.
12. The magma in a volcano is called lava when it reaches the air.
13. The ancient Greeks were the first people to have free public museums.
14. People in ancient times used the abacus to compute numbers.
15. Some museums are devoted entirely to computers.
16. Some species of bats are very beneficial to the environment.
17. More than five hundred volcanoes have erupted over the centuries.
18. Our sun is a typical, medium-sized star.
19. The gravity of the sun is almost twenty-eight times the gravity of Earth.
20. Some planets have one or more moons.
Exercise 2 Recognizing Complete Subjects and Predicates. In each sentence underline the
complete subject once and the complete predicate twice.
EXAMPLE: The blue-eyed Siamese cat curled up on the oak desk.
(1) The giant panda lives in the remote mountains of southern China. (2) This animal is a frustrating
mystery to zoologists. (3) The Chinese name for the panda is xiong-mao, or “bear-cat”. (4) However, the
animal is not a cat. (5) Zoologists do not agree about its identity. (6) Some call it a bear. (7) Others place it
in the same family as the raccoon. (8) Sadly, the panda is becoming rare. (9) The reason for this is the
scarcity of bamboo, its main food. (10) The panda populations can be saved only through worldwide efforts.
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20.1 The Sentence (Complete Subjects and Predicates)

Complete Subjects Complete Predicates

 Prentice-Hall, Inc. The Sentence (Complete Subjects and Predicates) • 41

20.1 The Sentence (Complete Subjects and Predicates)

42 • Grammar Exercise Workbook  Prentice-Hall, Inc.

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