Subject Subject Predicate Predicate: Using Compound Subjects and Predicates
About the Subject Subject Predicate Predicate: Using Compound Subjects and Predicates Lesson
Summary
Review lesson on simple sentences with compound subjects and predicates.
Objectives
• Introduce the idea of simple sentences with both compound subjects and predicates.
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Examples are given.
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In a list of sentences, students find and underline only the compound subjects.
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Students write one sentence with a compound subject.
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After a list of sentences, students will answer if the underlined words are a compound subject or predicate.
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Students are asked to write two sentences ? one with a compound subject, one with a compound predicate.
Suggested Grades
3rd Grade
4th Grade
5th Grade
Excerpt
A simple sentence has a subject and a predicate. The subject is who or what does the action in a sentence. Subjects come from two parts of speech ? nouns and pronouns.
The yellow cat jumped over the fence.
What is the simple subject? cat
What did the cat do? Jumped
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