8th graders!!! Ahhhh!!!

[juliasugarbaker]

I'm going to do better on this posting thing. However, it's bedtime. I get to sub at the junior high all week this week. Fun fun. I hate English and today when some kid asked me what a predicate was I told him to look it up. Mostly because I didn't know. Anyway, going to spend some quality time with dad this weekend, because Lacey is dog

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The predicate

[mikki_rosie]

is the part of the sentence that has to do with the verb...

Consider the following sentence:

The brown dog jumped over the white fence.

The subject is "The brown dog" with noun "dog" modified by the adjective "brown" and the article "the". The predicate is "jumped over the white fence" with "jumped" being past tense of the verb "jump" modified by the prepositional phrase "over the white fence" which in this case functions as an adverb describing where the dog jumped. "Over" is the preposition, of which the object is the noun "fence" clarified by the adjective "white" and the article "the".

How'd I do, Lacey?

Re: The predicate

[gin_woolf25]

actually, a predicate is the part of the sentence that tells about the subject. For example: The cat is in the litterbox. The cat is the subject, and is in the litterbox tells where the cat is. so, yep, mel, you were sorta right. in your sentence jumped over the fence is the predicate, telling about the action of the dog.