what what is subject and the predicate? give any two examples of each .
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Sentence
Reena is going to school.
Subject
Reena
Predicate
Is going to school.
Answer:
The subject of the sentence is what (or whom) the sentence is about. In the sentence “The cat is sleeping in the sun,” the word cat is the subject. A predicate is the part of a sentence, or a clause, that tells what the subject is doing or what the subject is.
Explanation:
Subject :-
A subject is the person or thing that is doing an action, or the person or thing that is the focus of the sentence. Most of the time the subject comes at the beginning of a sentence, in which case it is very easy to identify. Take the example below:
Mary likes to run at the public park.
In this case, the person who is doing the action (liking to run) is Mary. Mary is the subject. This is still the case when you have two nouns. If someone is doing something to someone else, it can get confusing. However, the same principle applies. If the person or thing is the cause of the action, they are the subject:
My brother throws him the ball.
For this sentence, the person who is throwing is my brother. As a side note, the other nouns are both objects. They have the action done to them. Him is the indirect object, and the ball is the direct object.
Predicate :-
The predicate of the sentence is the part that contains the action. It is the part of the sentence that is not the subject, and includes all the descriptions of the action and the objects that are affected by the action. Take this example:
Mary likes to run at the public park.
The question you can ask yourself here is, “What does Mary do”? The answer, likes to run at the public park, is the predicate. Notice that the predicate includes the verb in the sentence (likes) and all the rest of the words that describes what she likes.
When you have multiple nouns, the concept is the same. The entirety of the sentence that excludes the subject is the predicate. If the sentence has objects, either direct or indirect, they are part of the predicate.
My brother throws him the ball.
In this sentence, throws him the ball is the predicate.
Examples:
Harish read the book.
Subject – Harish
Predicate – read the book.
The veterinarian examined all the tigers.
Subject – The veterinarian
Predicate – examined all the tigers.