Finding the Subject and Predicate

Help your students avoid the dreaded sentence fragment with this lesson that gives young writers the building blocks they need to succeed in English class.

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Learning Objectives

Students will be able to understand the subject and predicate of a sentence as well as identify sentence fragments.

Introduction

( 10 minutes)

• Give the definition for subject, the person or thing being discussed in a sentence, and for predicate, the part of the sentence containing a verb and discussing the subject.
• Write an example sentence on the board and underline the subject once and the predicate twice.
• Ask students to write a short sentence in their notebooks and underline the different parts as you did.
• Ask students to share their sentences as you write them on the whiteboard.