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Study Guide for Test on Subjects, Predicates,
Prepositional Phrases
A complete subject contains the simple subject and its
modifiers. It does not include the verb.
The simple subject tells who or what the sentence is
about.
A kind young man / helped the elderly woman across the
street. The complete subject is “A kind young man” and
the complete predicate is “helped the elderly woman
across the street.” The simple subject is “man” and the
simple predicate is “helped”.
A prepositional phrase is a group of words that gives
additional information about where or when or how
something was done. Prepositional phrases begin with a
preposition (p. 89 in Exercises in English) and ends with a
noun or pronoun. This noun or pronoun is called the
object of the preposition.
For your test you will need to explain the difference
between a complete subject and simple subject and a
complete predicate and a simple predicate. You will have
to determine complete subjects/simple subjects and
complete predicates/simple predicates. Also you will
have to locate and bracket off prepositional phrases.