Subject And Predicate Lesson Plan 7th Grade. The person or the thing that the sentence is about. Fox is the simple subject and brown fox is the complete subject.
Every sentence has a subject and a predicate. Subjects indicate who or what the sentence is about while predicates tell you about the subject and include a verb. Every sentence has a subject and.
The subject tells who or what and the predicate tells what the who or what is doing.
Have your students engage in a sentence diagramming exercise involving subjects and predicates. Are your young grammarians confused by transitive and intransitive verbs. I do go briefly over a list of helping verbs the discussion that some verbs involve more than one word. Write an example sentence on the board and underline the subject once and the predicate twice.
