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The Sentence

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is a group of words
expressing a complete thought.

a
expressing lete
m p
co ught
tho
Every sentence has two essential parts:
and
The subject of a sentence The predicate of a sentence
is the part about which is the part which says
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something is being said. something about the subject.

The flower bloomed. Bill told everyone


about the wreck.

Bob painted. Mary sobbed.

The girls on the team were all Sue plays the piano well.
good students.
The simple subject is the The simple predicate, or
main word in the complete verb, is the main word or
subject. group of words in the
complete predicate.
The four new students arrived
Sara’s sister took us bowling
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early.
yesterday.
Simple subject students Simple predicate took

The complete subject is The complete predicate is


the main word and all its the verb and all its
modifiers. modifiers.

Complete subject The four new Complete Predicate took us


students bowling yesterday

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