In the above sentence, Sal is the subject and he does multiple things. He went home, turned on his television, and watched the news. Each of these three actions forms part of the sentence’s predicate. A predicate such as this can be referred to as a “compound predicate.” Once you ...
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“a word or a group of words, usually functioning as an adjective or noun, that is used in the predicate following a copula and describes or is identified with the subject of the sentence, as sleepy in the travellers became sleepy ”. as you went through the two definitions, you would ...
The above sentences have one or two nouns performing the same verb and therefore have ‘Compound Subjects’. –‘Rahul and Punit’, ‘Kanpur and Allahabad’, Dogs and Cats’, ‘Cars and Buses’ and ‘India and Nepal’. Exercise 1 Fill in the Blanks Exercises/Worksheets/Activities on Simple...
This is called Agreement between subject and verb. II. new words: subject predicate agreement singular form plural form collective noun III. language phenomena and conclusions Finish the following exercises: The boy ___ diving. They ___ diving. Both Jack and Tim ___ diving. Both Jack and Ti...
“THE SUBJECT DISAGREES WITH THE PREDICATE” This slogan emerged at the very beginning of the fall protests. It is a play on words in the original Polish: the word for “predicate” (orzeczenie) means both a part of speech and a court decision. The slogan points to the “grammatical” ...
II.newwords:subjectpredicateagreementsingularformpluralformcollective noun III.languagephenomenaandconclusions Finishthefollowingexercises: Theboy___diving. They___diving. BothJackandTim___diving. BothJackandTim___diving. NeitherJacknorTim___walking. Allofthem___diving. Bob___aworker. MikeandBob__...
They are the team with the most points at the end of the game. The winning team stands on the field and talks to the press. If you want to have a plural predicate, write or say a plural topic: dance partners, teammates, group members. You will find that the use of the verb for ...