# Subject and Predicate: Rules and Examples | SwaVid

Subject and predicate: The subject is who or what the sentence is about, with every word that describes it. Rules, examples and a quick check.

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# Subject and predicate: rules and examples

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Short answer. The subject is who or what the sentence is about, with every word that describes it. The predicate is the rest: it says something about the subject.

1 . Pick the whole subject. The tall girl from Class 7 sang a song.

Subject: who or what. Predicate: what we say about it.

The subject is who or what the sentence is about, with every word that describes it. The predicate is the rest: it says something about the subject.

The bus | stopped near the school. (predicate: stopped near the school) Our dog | barks at night. (predicate: barks at night)

Subject: who or what. Predicate: what we say about it.

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- Find the subject . Ask: who or what is this sentence about? That word, with its describing words, is the subject.
- The subject can be long . Words that say which one, like "with the blue cap", are also part of the subject. The subject ends just before the verb.
- Where the predicate starts . The whole predicate starts with the verb and runs to the end of the sentence. It is everything after the subject.
- The bus | stopped near the school. predicate: stopped near the school
- Our dog | barks at night. predicate: barks at night

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