GRADE 6
Subject, predicate, object
Grade 6 English Home Language Term 2 Weeks 1 & 2: Unit “How do you do it?” Language structures and conventions: Subject and Predicate PG 10&11
Name:
A. Subject and predicate
All sentences have Subject (contains a noun or a pronoun)
two main parts – a Mrs Smith
subject (naming
part) and a predicate Predicate (contains a verb)
(doing part). bakes (verb) delicious cakes
Make sentences
How many different sentences can you
make combining subjects and predicates
from these sentences? Work in your class
workbook.
Subject Predicate
Monkeys love bananas
The children climb trees
The boys play hide and seek
B. Subject, verb and object
Predicates can be
divided into two parts again,
namely verb (action word) and
object (the thing that receives
the action). To find the object
you have to ask What or Who/
Whom after the verb. Note: not
all verbs have objects.
Subject Predicate (VERB: action Predicate (OBJECT: The
word) item receiving the verb)
Mrs Smith bakes delicious cakes
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C. Find the subject and object
In the sentences below, underline the verbs. Ask what or who/whom and then write
Grade 6 English Home Language Term 2 Weeks 1 & 2: Unit “How do you do it?” Language structures and conventions: Subject and Predicate PG 10&11
the object in the space provided.
a) Mark damaged .
b) Cindy helped .
c) The lions ate .
Make sentences
Write four sentences of your own that have a subject and an object. Underline the
verb in each sentence.
D. Complete these sentences by adding a predicate that includes an object
a) Everyone in the family
b) She
c) His father
E. Complete these sentences by adding a subject
a) fly in the sky.
b) watched the tennis on the television.
c) have very large ears.
d) grow well in the Western Cape.
e) read the book.
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