Complete Subjects and Predicates
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Grammar. Compound Sentences
Each sentence has a complete subject and a complete
predicate.
A complete subject has all of the words that tell whom
or what the sentence is about. A complete predicate has
all of the words that tell what the subject is or does
complete complete
subject predicate
We all recounted the votes.
Thinking Questions
What are the words that
tell whom or what the
sentence is about?
What are the words that
tell what the subject is or
does?
Activity Circle the complete subject and underline the complete predicate
in each sentence.
1. The girl with the blue ribbon was running for class president,
2. The poster with the sparkles was Reina's.
3. Reina's parents and friends helped write her speech
4. The past class presidents always worked to improve the school.
5 All of the students cast their votes.
o. Someone in the lobby yelled that the votes were in

identify the subordinate clause in each of the following sentences. tell whether each clause is used as an adjective, an adverb, or a noun.

11.) emily dickinson, who was born in 1830in amherst, massachusetts, was a great american poet.

12.) she appeared to lead a fairly normal life until she became a recluse in her family's home.

13.) there she wrote poems that literary critics now call "great american poetry".

14.) unfortunately, only a few of dickinson's poems were published while she was alive.

15.) after she died in 1886, her other poems were published.

16.) i think everyone should reaad at least some of dickonson's poetry.

17.) dickinson is a poet whose work i now read often.

18.) the poems i have just finished reading are "a narrow fellow in the grass" and "apparently with no surprise"

19.) the rythyms of dickonson's poems are best appreciated when you read the poems aloud.

20.) whatever i read by emily dickonson surprises amd inspires me.