subject and predicate

Understanding subject and predicate

A sentence  is a group of words  than make sense
With two main parts: A whole subject and whole predicate.

e.g: Kingston is the capital parish on the Jamaican  soil.
        Kingston is what, and where.

What about if it don't make any sense?
Then we refer to it as a fragment.

Fragments is a group of words that don't represent a complete thought.
e.g:   "not this way"
         It don't express which way it is, or who

The subject of a sentence is the word or group of words that tells
Whom or what the sentence represent.

A simple subject can be a noun, pronoun.
e.g: Tony cooks rice and peas for lunch.
Tony is the subject.

They can also be modified with an adjective or adjectives  in this case we normally use a noun as an adjective . That is called a complete subjects.

Jamaicans English teachers highly qualified for the job.
Jamaicans English teachers  that's the complete subject.
We refers to teachers  as the subject.
A predicate
This is  the verb or the verb phrase that explains  who or what the subject does.
A simple predicate  consist of a verb or verb phrase that cannot be left out of the completion.

Tony cooks rice and peas for lunch.
The bold text tells you what Tony had done.
That's an simple predicate

A complete predicate
Tony quickly cooks rice and peas for lunch.
Tony cook the lunch in short matter of time.

What about a compound predicate
This has two are more verb that uses the same subject and are joined
by a conjuction.

Tony buy and cook rice and peas for lunch.
Buy and cook are the two verbs.
Tony is the one who buy and cook the lunch.

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