Download Part 2 Parts of Speech and Parts of a Sentence

Quick Reference Guide: Parts of a Sentence
Part of Sentence
Definition and Example
Subject
The noun or pronoun identifying who or what
the sentence is about.
Predicate
Example: Charlie went to find Snoopy and Linus.
The action the subject performs or the subject’s
state of being.
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Nouns
Pronouns
Action Verbs
Linking Verbs
Verb Phrases
Example: Charlie went to find Snoopy and Linus.
Predicate
Nominative
A noun or pronoun that follows a linking verb
and renames the subject of the sentence.
Nouns
Pronouns
Example: The girl is a professor.
Predicate
Adjective
An adjective that follows a linking verb and
describes or modifies the subject of the sentence.
Adjectives
Example: The bear is quite burly.
Direct Object
The noun or pronoun that follows an action verb Nouns
Pronouns
and answers the questions Who? or What?
Example: That girl stole my Ipod.
Indirect Object
The noun or pronoun that follows the action
verb, precedes the direct object, and answers the
question To whom? or For whom?
Nouns
Pronouns
Example: The government will give us a rebate.
Object
Complement
A noun that renames the direct object or an
adjective that describes the direct object.
Nouns
Pronouns
Adjectives
Example: We appointed John our class president.
Object of the
Preposition
A noun or a pronoun that ends a prepositional
phrase. (*There can be an article and other
modifiers between the preposition and its
object.)
Example: We ran over the neighbor’s lawn.
Nouns
Pronouns
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