Subject and Predicate | Chapter 2 | Wren and Martin | Examples | Exercise

What is Subject and Predicate?

Every sentence is made of two parts:
(1) A person or thing that is being discussed, described, or dealt with; and
(2) Say something about that person or thing which is called Predicate.

The part of the sentence which tells what of who or what the sentence is about is called Subject. and
The part of the sentence which tells what is being said about the subject is called Predicate.

Let me give you some examples to understand this concept clearly.

Ram is running fast.
This sentence is made of two parts,

Here, Ram is the person whom we are talking about So, 'Ram' is a subject, and what is he doing, he is running fast.
is running fast is the predicate.

Let me give you another example :
He has no money in his pocket.

Here, ask who has huge money, She. So, She is the subject.
and what she has, has huge money. So, it is the predicate.

Let's look into another example :
The cackling of geese saved Rome.
Here, The entire phrase, 'The cackling of geese' is describing who is the main character of the sentence,
So it is a subject and 'saved Rome' is the object.

Notice, from the examples that, a subject can be a Noun, like Ram, pronoun like 'He', or a noun phrase like 'The cackling of geese'.
a predicate must contain a verb, it may or may not have other words.

The subject usually comes first as you can see in this examples,
but occasionally it is put after the predicate.

Here comes the bus.
Here, 'the bus' is the subject, and 'Here comes' is the predicate.

3. In imperative sentences, 'You' is by default subject.
For example, Sit down.
In this sentence, if some ask you, what is the subject and predicate in this sentence.
Then you must remember that for imperative sentence,
The subject is by default, 'You' and 'Sit down' is the predicate.

After looking at these examples, I hope now you will be able to identify a subject and predicate in the sentence.

Let's look into exercise.
In the given sentences, identify the Subject and the Predicate:

Exercise :
1. He has a good memory.
2. The singing of the birds delights us.
3. Sweet are the uses of adversity.


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[jawairiajay]

He - subject
Has a good memory- predicate
The birds- subject
The singing delights us- predicate
Sweet- subject
Are used of adversity- predicate.

[gauravwaghmare]

1. He is a subject and, has a good money is predicted
2. Birds is a subject and, The singing of the delight us
3.sweet is a subject and, are the uses of adversity

Thank you 😊

[KhushiSirohi-tynj]

Today is my it exam I am studing since 14 hours with 2 hour sleep at night and now I don't rember anything nicely, sleep is important

[ritiksharma]

' it is raining outside '
What will subject in above sentence??

[LEONGAMER]

The boy stood on the burning deck meaning casabianca

[narjisfatima]

The singing of the birds is subject and delight is predicate

[mahendrakweera]

The bird is subject and the singing of delights us is a predicate

[nancyshangari]

The birds are subject and the singing of the and delights are predicte

[manishalifestyle]

He SUBJECT has a good memory PREDICATE .
The singing of the birds delights PREDICATE and us is SUBJECT.
Sweet Subject and Aretha used of adversity .
Tq sir for prepared my exam

[santhudimili]

1st sentence he is the subject
And the has a good memory is the predicate

[surbhisharma]

1) Subject- He
Predicate- has a good memory.
2) Subject- The birds
Predicate- The singing of the delights
3) Subject-Sweet
Predicate- are the uses of adversity

[vijayashanmugavelu]

1. He is subject as a good memory is a predicate

[coolarts]

2.birds is subject and singing of the and delights us is predicate

[venomplays]

The singing of (the birds)delights us
Predicate. /Subject/

[shizabhagiraththvasant]

The singing of the bird delights us
Subject :- the singing of the bird
Predicate :- delight us

[masoodahmed]

He is the subject..has a goog memory is a predicate
Birds is a subject..the singing delights us is a predicate
Adversity is a subject..sweets are the uses is predicate

[BhavaniBusa]

a)ans : subject :He
Predicate : has a good memory
b)ans :sub :The singing of the birds
Predicate :delights

c) ans : subject: The uses of adversity
Predicate: sweet are

[Study-okhh]

he- subject, has a good memory- predicate, the singing of birds-subject, delights us-predicate and sweets-subject, are the uses of adversity- predicate

[Vrindaa]

He is subject and has a good memory is predicate
The singing of the birds are predicate and delights us is the subject
Sweet is subject and uses of adversity is predicate

[ushasighosh]

Subject Predicate
He has a good memory
The singing of the birds delights us
Sweet are the uses of adversity