Subject and predicate basics

1. Writing a Sentence

2. A sentence is a group of words that has
 Order and makes sense
 A capital letter at the beginning
 Punctuation at the end
 A complete thought or idea
 A subject and a predicate

3. Order and makes sense
 The a man woman married. This is not a sentence.
 A man married a woman. This is a sentence.
 The woman married a man. This is also a sentence.

4. A capital at the beginning
 We walked to work.
 Brenda drinks coffee every morning.
 I exercise as often as I can.
 The wind blew down my tree yesterday.
 A sentence always begins with a capital letter.

5. Punctuation
 Every sentence ends with punctuation.
 There are only three types of punctuation that can end a sentence. You can
use one of the following
 a period .
 a question mark ?
 an exclamation mark !

6. A Complete thought
 A baby cried. a complete thought
 Is fixing the roof. incomplete thought Who is fixing the roof?
 The waiter. incomplete thought What about the waiter?
 At the store. Incomplete thought What happened?

7. Subject and Predicate
 The subject tells you who or what the sentence is about.
 There is always a noun.
 A noun is a person, place or thing.
 The predicate tells you about the subject.
 It will always include a verb.
 A verb is an action word.

8. Find the Subject
 They are my friends.
 Apples and peaches grow in the Okanagan Valley.
 Many people who love to ski visit Whistler Mountain every year.

9. Subject
 They are my friends.
 Apples and peaches grow in the Okanagan Valley.
 Many people who love to ski visit Whistler Mountain every year.

10. Find the Predicate
 They are my friends.
 Apples and peaches grow in the Okanagan Valley.
 Many people who love to ski visit Whistler Mountain every year.

11. Predicate
 They are my friends.
 Apples and peaches grow in the Okanagan Valley.
 Many people who love to ski visit Whistler Mountain every year.

12. Let’s try another one.
 The audience dropped candy wrappers all over the floor.
 To find the subject, ask yourself, who did the action?
 To find the predicate, find the verb.

13. Did you find the subject and predicate?
 Subject
 The audience dropped candy wrappers all over the floor.
 Predicate
 The audience dropped candy wrappers all over the floor.