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Subjects, Predicates, and Objects
Review: Parts of Speech
Directions: In the following sentences, label each word with its part of speech.
1.Circus parades were long and elaborate.
2.They arrived in town by train.
3.Night parades seemed especially exciting.
4.Wow! Those electric lights and torches glowed so brightly!
5.Animals rode in velvet-draped cages.
•A sentence is a group of words with two main parts: a ______________ ______________ and
a ______________ ______________.
•Together, these parts express a ______________ ______________.
Exercise 1: Identify the complete subjects and predicates in each sentence.
1.Ellen and her friends visited the Museum of Modern Art.
2.You will need a good college dictionary and some other reference texts.
3.Rounding the bend, we saw the old village store under and immense elm tree.
4.Everyone must pass the same entrance examinations.
5.The end of the play was not at all surprising.
Exercise 2: Identify each sentence as a sentence or fragment.
1.Choose to lead the team.
2.Suddenly, at the crack of dawn.
3.The house is fenced on three sides.
4.The assistant principal of the high school.
5.Near the top of the mountain range.
•The ______________ subject is the ______________ noun, pronoun, or group of words acting
as a noun that cannot be left out of the ______________ subject.
•The ______________ predicate is the essential ______________ or verb ______________
that cannon be left out of the ______________ predicate.
Exercise 3:
1. Cattle herders worked up to twenty hours a day.
2. They drove cattle up and down the Chisholm trail.
3. Sources of water were sometimes not easily found.
4. Natural predators hunted the cattle.
5. Wild buffalo stampedes often occurred late at night.
•In most sentences, the subject comes before the verb. This is called ______________ word
order.
•In some sentences, however, the verb comes first, and the word order is ______________.
•If there is a problem finding the subject, change the sentence back to ______________ word
order, placing the ______________ first.
Exercise 4: Identify the simple subject and verb in each sentence.
1.There are three strange men in your office.
2.Have the grandparents arrived yet?
3.Near the bank of the river was an old canoe.
4.Where can my notebooks be?
5.Here are the books from the library.
•A ______________ is a word or group of words that ______________ the meaning of the
predicate of a sentence.
•A ______________ ______________ is a noun, pronoun, or group of words acting as a noun
that receives the ______________ of the transitive verb.
Exercise 5: Identify the direct object in each sentence.
1.My mother asked her for the cookie recipe.
2.We will need a dictionary and some paper.
3.Which television did you finally buy?
4.My uncle opened a small business in Buffalo.
5.What book do you recommend?
•An ______________ ______________ is a noun or pronoun that appears with a direct object
and names the person or thing that something is given to or done for. Note that indirect objects
are found only in sentences that also have ______________ ______________.
Exercise 6: Identify the indirect object(s) and direct object(s) in each sentence.
1.I promised Marie and Betty tickets to the concert.
2.Show them your injury.
3.Why did you lend her your new sweater?
4.Teach the chorus the song.
5.After dinner, I gave the girls their presents.
•An ______________ ______________ is an adjective, noun, or group of words acting as a
noun that follows a ______________ ______________ and describes or renames it.
•Objective complements are usually found after such verbs as ______________, call,
______________, elect, label, make, ______________, and think.
•A ______________ ______________ is a noun, a pronoun, or an adjective that appears with a
______________ verb and tells something about the ______________.
•There are two kinds of subject complements:
–______________ ______________
–______________ ______________.
•A predicate nominative is a ______________ or ______________ that appears with a linking
verb and ______________, identifies, or ______________ the subject.
•A predicate adjective is an ______________ that appears with a ______________
______________ and describes the ______________ of the sentence.
Exercise 7: Identify the predicate in each sentence, then label it as a predicate nominative or
predicate adjective.
1.For thousands of years, spaceflight seemed a dream.
2.The desire to fly remained distant and elusive.
3.Nicolas Copernicus was a Polish astronomer in the sixteenth century.
4.His observations of the universe were quite insightful.
5.Other contributors to the study of astronautics were physicists, mathematicians, and
astronomers.