Summary
What’s the bare-bones minimum needed to build a sentence? Find out in this BrainPOP movie, as Tim and Moby teach you all about subjects and predicates! You’ll learn which part tells you what the sentence is about and which part tells you what is happening in the sentence. Plus, figure out how to find the simple subject and simple predicate, and what role each of these word forms plays. Subject and predicate: Working together to bring you sentences since the earliest days of the English language!
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Discussion questions
A few questions to talk through after watching Subject and Predicate:
- What is one new thing you learned about subject and predicate?
- Can you explain it to a partner in your own words?
- Where might you see this in the real world?
- What is one question you still have?
Quick work-a-long
Try it:
- Write one sentence explaining subject and predicate.
- Draw or give one example of your own.