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Date
What Do You Need for a Sentence?
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A Subject and a Predicate
A complete sentence has two parts: the s ubject and the p redicate .
subject
predicate
Kim plays baseball.
To find the parts, in most sentences, ask yourself:
1. Whom or what is the sentence about? Your answer
is the subject.
2. What does the subject do? Your answer is the predicate.
What Does the
Sentence
Whom or What?
Subject Do?
I
joined the team
I joined the team.
The coach
gives me advice
The coach gives me
advice.
Try It
A. Match each subject with a predicate to make a complete sentence.
1. Our team
is one of the best teams around.
2. Mr. Harrison
try to beat us.
3. All of his players
coaches our team well.
4. He
asks us to do our best.
5. Other teams
work hard during practice.
6. The crowds
win lots of games!
7 . We
cheer when we play.
8 . Total commitment
is necessary on our team.