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Re: Compound subjects and compound predicates...

Anonymous — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:19:38 GMT

Hi,
My son came home with the same homework assignment. Here is how it goes.

1. Swimming and softball are two sports in the Olympic Games. (compound subject)

2. The swimmer's skill and speed made him a winner. (compound predicate)

3.The runner worked hard and succeeded. (compound predicate)

I wasn't able to underline twice for the compound predicts. But this is they way it was to be completed.

1. Your bat, ball, and glove are on the bench. (compound subject)

2. The ballplayer, swimmer, and runner come from the same town. (compound subject)

3. The girl can run fast, jump far, and throw hard. (compound predicate)

Re: Simple subject/Simple predicate

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:11:39 GMT

pls. underline the subject and circle the the predicate..

Re: Predicate Nominative/ Predicate Adjective !HELP!

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:36:28 GMT

ok the phrase : Also remember that predicate nominatives/adjectives are only for linking verbs and action verbs are followed by direct/indirect objects is what i needed to hear 4 hours ago....lol.... thank you so very much i am correcting my sons 6th grade home work and really got lost do to it had both questions of direct/indirect objects and predicate nouns/adjectives. I am a mom who stumbled across this forum and i am so glad if you get this message please review these two sentences that are on his paper

the directions are underline the predicate noun and circle the predicate adjective (but just name them for me please)

1. Gloria is thoughtful about other people.

2. She became an artist after several years of work.

Re: Need help ( subject, predicate)

market-huxley — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:25:02 GMT

sorry, I can't underline on this computer.. this is a lesson exercise of a correspondence course i'm taking... I need some help with... Is it correct or not...I'm i on the right direction.

Re: Need help ( subject, predicate)

Fandorin — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:16:10 GMT

It had better you to try underline and we may correct your sentences. There is no another way to learn language.

Need help ( subject, predicate)

market-huxley — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:59:07 GMT

5. copy each sentence; underline the simple subject once and the simple predicate twice.

a. It is a shame! it=subject is=verb

b.Will you go to a movie with me? you=subject go=verb

c. Janet has been singing in the choir for years. Janet=subject .. the predicate I'm having trouble with... Is it "has been singing" or "singing" becuase "has been" are helping verbs. What is the "simple predicate"?

d. Through the dense bushes and into the open fields ran the white-tailed deer.

deer= subject. ran=verb

e. To win the gold medal is the goal of many athletes.

To win=subject is=verb

How are my answers looking?

Re: Identify the functions of verbs in the sentence

Avangi — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 18:18:26 GMT

Anonymous wrote:

Identify the functions of verbs in the sentence below by labelling them Vt (transitive), Vi (intransitive), Vd (dative), Vf (factitive), Vc (copulative) & Vs (sense)

Q1: He was last seen (vs) being given a large amount of money outside a bank.

Q2: In the late nineteenth century, Chinese secret societies became (vc) obessive about the possession of silver to such an extent that voilence often flared up among them.

Q3: Since the first astronaut landed (vi) on the moon, mankind has explored (vt) the idea of travelling to Mars.

Q4: The crowd was (vc) getting larger and more agitated when, at last, the police happened (vi)

Q5: Since he was (vc) always reliable and systematic, the committee unanimously voted (vf) Mike Treasurer.

I have tried to underline the main verb for each sentence but not sure whether I'm on the right track. Please enlighten.

Many thanks in advance.

Hi Anon, "Please enlighten." Too much light??

I think these terms have been invented by the ESL community and are a little tough for "native speakers" who are not trained ESL teachers. There's some overlap and ambiguity.

Transitive and intransitive are of course basic native English grammar school material. Every verb is one or the other, and often both, but not at the same time.

Q1: [to see] (Vt) - passive voice (vs would be You look funny.) [I may get clobbered on this.]

Q2: [to become] okay (links to predicate adjective obsessive)

Q3: [to land] okay (no object) [to explore] okay (direct object=idea)

Q4: [to get - in the intransitive sense of to become] okay (links to adjectival phrase larger and more agitated) [why not underline both parts as you did in Q1: ?] [to happen] okay

Q5: [to be] okay (links to adjectival phrase [always] reliable and systematic) [to vote] okay (two direct objects)

Regards, - A.

complete predicates

SomeDude74 — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 05:54:58 GMT

the sentence is

Some of you will take this test tomorrow

I have to underline the Complete Subject and Complete Predicate

I wrote

Some of you will take this test tomorrow

should i include will and tomorrow with the Complete Predicate or no?

Save me from Boring English Grammar book, please!

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 09:26:41 GMT

Recently, I picked up a few English grammar books in a bookstore with the intention of improving my grammar. However, I found that those books were the usual boring way of learning a language. They started with nouns, describing what a noun is and the various form of nouns and e.t.c. I personally find that this kind of teaching method is extremely boring. Why do they tell me what is a predicate and a subject ? Why do they ask me to underline a clause, a phrase, a compound noun, a complex statement in a sentence? Why do they describe to me passive voice, active voice and asking me to identify which group the sentences belong to in their boring exercises?

I want them to tell me why I need to know those. What are the benefits of knowing those and how do I improve my grammar by knowing those. I don't want them to sound so academic as if they themselves don't know why they need to tell me those facts and that they just pass to me what they have learnt from their own boring educational systems. It sounds so academic like teaching history to those average sleepy students......'Class, on 23rd of October, 1917, the American troops in France fire their first shot in trench warfare'. Then in their examination paper, there is a multiple question asking when the first shot was fired by the American troops in France. The students memorise the exact date, answer the question and get 2 marks. So what !? So What if American fired their first shot on 23rd October? Even if they wanted to shoot on 29th December, why do I need to care?!

Surely there must be an interesting way of learning English grammar. Hence I would appreciate if anyone of you in this forum who ever read a good interesting English grammar book, would be kind enough to share with us here.

Thanks.

Re: Need help identifying sentence elements

Mister Micawber — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 10:29:04 GMT

1-- The which clause can indeed be considered an adverbial, modifying the whole predicate, was veiled in a thin cloud-curtain. (The whole process of veiling her diffuses, etc, her radiance.) I think a case could equally be made for its being a simple adjectival clause modifying cloud-curtain, however.

2-- The when clause could not possibly be a prepositional phrase, of course, since it has a subject (Winterbourne) and verb (approached); it is a sentence adverbial of time. Do you think the authors meant to underline just on...villa)?

That...glance is the delayed subject of occurred, following the introductory it.