Questions and Answers on Subjects and Predicates
Question 1 : Are conversational and grammatical complete thoughts the same thing?
Answer : No, they are not. Even if we comprehend an idea communicated in casual conversation, it does not mean that the idea was expressed in a grammatically correct form.
Question 2 : What must any complete sentence possess to be complete?
Answer : A complete sentence must have a subject and a predicate.
Question 3 : What do we call the doing or being part of the sentence?
Answer : This part is called the predicate.
Question 4 : What is the head subject?
Answer : The head subject is the particular word in the subject that names the person or thing spoken of.
Question 5 : Are modifiers ever part of the complete sentence?
Answer : Yes, the complete predicate is the head predicate along with its modifiers.
Question 6 : What kind of subject do we see in the sentence ” Swimming and diving are strenuous sport”?
Answer : The sentence contains a compound object, swimming and diving.
Question 7 : Name the head compound predicate in the sentence “My brother enjoys driving and loves cars.”
Answer :
Question 8 : When are we allowed to omit a portion of verb phrase?
Answer : We can omit a portion of a verb phrase in the latter elements of a compound predicate where the head elements are verb phrases that share the same auxiliary verbs.
Question 9 : What is a sentence diagram?
Answer : A sentence diagram is a pictorial representation of a sentence.