Subjects and Predicates Worksheets

Related ELA Standard: L.6.1.E

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In a complete sentence you will find a subject this is whom or what the sentence is about. In the same complete thought, you will also find a predicate that tells what this subject does. In most cases the subject comes before the predicate in a sentence. When the sentence is a question the predicate tends to come before the subject. This collection of worksheets will help students learn how to identify both the predicate and subject of a sentence.

Subjects and Predicate Worksheets To Print:

Identifying Key Partss - Find the part of the statements that they are asking for. Underline the part of the statement indicated in the parentheses.

Simple or Complete? - Underline the complex part and circle the simple part found within each entry.

Think Inside the Box - This is a "Follow the directions" activity. You just need to do as you are told.

Writing Complete Thoughts - You think critically, evaluate a series of different words to breakdown and then you will write your own sentences.

Team Effort - You will need to think deeply here. You will choose two word parts that a partner will need to work off of.

Bake Sale - What part did they underline? These statements all center around a bake sale that is taking place at school.

Splitting Hairs! - Differentiate each part of the sentence from the other. You draw lines between the part features of each.

Compound Predicates - Rewrite each statement into two separate thoughts. Make each have an identify of its own.

Brainstorming - Once you are done brainstorming, look at what you wrote down and write a short 3-5 sentence story or start of a story, including at least 3 subjects and 3 predicates you brainstormed.

Single and Compound - If a sentence has a single subject, underline it. If it is compound, circle it.

Single and Compound Predicates - Circle the predicate if it is a single predicate. Underline the predicate if it is a compound predicate.

Create Your Own Story - Write a 5-7-sentence story. Be sure every thought is complete, which means no fragments!

Matching Subjects & Predicates - Take your time to match two of these guys up.

Finish Your Thought - Identify each italicized portion as a subject or predicate by putting an "S" or "P" in the blank.

Subject or Predicate? - Determine how to classify each part within the statements by writing an "S" or "P" in the blank.

Capitalize and Punctuate - Read each group of words. For subjects only, write S in the blank. For predicates only, write P in the blank.

What's It About? - For complete sentences, write SP and capitalize and punctuate.

Complete Sentences - Add the portion that is missing to create a complete thought.

Simple and Complete - Label the underlined word(s) SS for simple subject or CS for compound.

Time to Get It Together - Underline the complete subject and circle or highlight the simple form of it.

Brace For It - Read each of the sentence and position a brace to separate the two words of interest to us.

Writing Practice - Answer each of the prompts using what you have learned here.

Types of Them - Match each sentence to its description. Write the correct letter on the line.

Fill It In! - Add a subject to complete each of the thoughts that are started for you.

Compound Instances - Rewrite each sentence so that it has a compound subject.

Sentence Breakdown - You will point to specific parts within each of the thoughts.

What's Wrong? - Add something to each sentence as necessary so that it contains all the necessary parts.

Complete It - Analyze each of these sentences and find all of those word parts.

Boxing - You will remove the words from the sentences to demonstrate that you understand this skill.

Two to One - A compound subject is a sentence that has two subjects. Each of these thoughts contains them. Rewrite each statements as two sentences that each contain a single form.

The Finisher - Complete each of these basic thoughts.

What's It Mean? - What is the significance of the underlined portion of these statements?

Parts of Thoughts - This is a really cool activity that kids really enjoy.

One to Three Words - What would you use to complete these statements.

What's Missing? - What's missing from each sentence? Write your answer on the line.

More Related Worksheet Topics:

Rearranging Your Thoughts - Your students will learn how to put this skill to work for them.

Writing Appropriate Complete Thoughts - This is when you have a complete thought that checks all the boxes for you.

Writing With An Active or Passive Voice - This will take you a good level of practice.

What are Subjects and Predicates?


Subject and Predicates are an important part of the English language. It is very crucial to understand the subject and predicate because they are an important part of the sentence and no thought is considered complete without them. Many students are confused between these classifications, so to clarify the concept we are examining here, an in-depth explanation of both of these is given below:


Subject

A Subject in a sentence is the doer of an action. The subject in the same entry tells us about who is doing the action, three types of the subject are the first-person such as I or we, second-person including you, and third-person including he, she, it, they, etc. In the example, "the fox was chasing the bird" fox is the subject because it is doing the action of chasing. Similarly, in the sentence, "he was crossing the road" he is doing an action and hence is a subject.


Predicates

A predicate is the part of the sentence that tells us about the subject or explains the action of it. The predicate tells about what happened to the subject or from itself. Two main types of a predicate are compound predicates and complete predicate. The compound predicate gives more than one explanations and details about any subject. For example, "she went to the museum and saw the natural habitats sections", in this sentence she is a subject while the remaining sentence is a compound predicate because it is giving two details about the subject i.e., visiting the museum and seeing natural habitat. A complete predicate is a verb that fully explains the thought or a phrase. In simple words, we can describe a predicate as that part of a sentence that is other than the subject.


Why Do We Study This?

Having the ability to breakdown a pair of sentences into their underlying roots is a key for learning good sentence structure. This is the first step towards becoming a proficient writer. The first task is to be able to produce complete thoughts. From there students can begin to understand when they should end their sentences. When you begin to understand the mechanics of a solid sentence, it becomes easy to compose your own complete thoughts. This is the first time most students will learn how to edit their own work to take a good thought and make it an elegant form of language and expression. This also helps us pivot to writing well-constructed paragraphs and eventually full-length compositions. Unlike most topics, this is a skill that needs to be reviewed repeatedly. Make no mistake English is on of the most intricate languages and is not something you can perfect quickly. I find that having students color code their sentences is extremely effectively. Maybe it is the bright colors or just using a different part of the brain, but it works!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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