Course:
Kaveri English
time left:
:
:
Subjects are words or groups of words, usually a noun, that does an action in a sentence.
| Subject | Predicate |
| Peter | loves cats and dogs. |
| Mr John | lives in a rented cottage. |
| My friends | visit me every weekend. |
| Three of my teachers | play with us in school. |
NB: Subject is not only the nouns, but also the words that come before the nouns too. In the left column above, Peter, Mr John, My friends and Three of my teachers are all subjects. Predicate is the rest of the sentence except the subject.
Not only nouns, pronouns can also be subjects.
| Subject | Predicate |
| She | is a helpful woman. |
| He | was my classmate. |
| They | are businessmen. |
| We | are very famous. |
I, we, you, they, he, she and it are also used as subjects.
Verbs are the actions in a sentence. We usually find verbs after subjects.
| Subject | Verb | Object |
| She | loves | cats and dogs. |
| He | was | my classmate. |
| They | are | businessmen. |
| We | were | very famous. |
Verbs can be doing verbs like “loves, eats, walks”; or being verbs like “is, am, are, was, were”; or having verbs like “have, has, had.”
Look at this sentence: Sam loves cats. Here, whom does Sam love? Ans: Cats. Objects are usually nouns or pronouns that receive the subject’s action. They make cakes. What do they make? Ans: Cakes. So, to find objects, ask what or whom? Americans started the war. What did Americans start? Ans: War. Maggie helped her brother. Whom did Maggie help? Ans: Her brother.
| Subject + verb | Objects |
| She helps | her parents. |
| Mr John eats | chocolates. |
| My friends plays | cricket. |
| My mother cooks | tasty food. |
