Every complete sentence has two parts: Subject and Predicate

1. Every complete sentence has two parts: Subject and Predicate

2. Subject: The who or what • Harriet bakes. • They cried. Simple subject: • The long, bitter winter took its toll on the soldiers. Compound subject: • Team pennants, movie posters, and family photographs covered the boy's bedroom walls.

3. Predicate: What subject does or is • Thunder booms. • He had eaten. Simple predicate: • The hound dog led us quickly out of the woods. Compound predicate: • Shelby has tried biking but prefers swimming.

4. Practice Four young soldiers led the troops into battle. In less than two hours, the entire cake and all the ice cream had been eaten.

5. For most of his career, Jim has ridden his bicycle to his office. Two beautiful goldfish in a pond were eating the flies and gnats on the top of the water.

6. His terror of spiders kept him out of the dark basement. Last week's fire was planned and started by an arsonist from a nearby town.

7. Tricky one! Eat your food slowly.

8. Another tricky one! There were three stray kittens cowering under our porch steps this morning.