Subject and Predicate
A sentence is group of words which expresses a complete meaning or idea.
Example: He ate an apple.
A sentence consists of two parts:
- subject
- predicate
Sentence = Subject + Predicate.
Subject
The part of sentence which performs some action in a sentence is called Subject. A subject can be a noun, pronoun, noun clause or noun phrase.
Examples:
He is doing work.
John is riding a bike.
She ate an apple
I wrote her a letter.
Predicate
The part of sentence which expresses about the subject is called predicate.
Examples:
He is doing work.
John is riding a bike.
She ate an apple
I wrote her a letter.
Subject refers to the actor of a sentence. The part of a sentence about which something is told in a sentence is the subject of sentence. While the part of a sentence that tells something about subject is the predicate of sentence.
Example:
In the above example, “she” is a subject because it performs an action of washing clothes. While the rest part of the sentence “is typing a letter” is predicate of sentence because it tells something (Typing a letter) about the subject.
