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Subject and Predicate Exercise Page 93

A. Circle the complete subject and underline the complete predicate in each sentence.

1. John and I went for a walk in the evening.
2. This is where I come to buy groceries.
3. Hundreds of people visit the museum every week.
4. The moon is the earth's natural satellite.
5. Mrs. Banks took her nephew to the zoo yesterday.
6. The liver is the largest internal organ in the body.
7. All the students were eagerly waiting for the art class.
8. Our dog Peppy is very playful.
9. Video games and online games are very popular with adult and children alike.
10. Birds that live in cold places migrate to warmer regions in winter.
11. Almost everyone agreed with each other.
12. The cruel king was hated by all his subjects.
13. The entire town was destroyed by the earthquake.
14. The newly-wed couple bought a house in the city.
15. A loud noise woke me up in the middle of the night.
16. Mother and father along with my brother have gone out.
17. How the people crowd the station.
18. Can you tell me the name of the girl?
19. Take this message to the central office.

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1. John and I went for a walk in the evening.
2. This is where I come to buy groceries.
3. Hundreds of people visit the museum every week.
4. The moon is the earth's natural satellite.
5. Mrs. Banks took her nephew to the zoo yesterday.
6. The liver is the largest internal organ in the body.
7. All the students were eagerly waiting for the art class.
8. Our dog Peppy is very playful.
9. Video games and online games are very popular with adult and children alike.
10. Birds that live in cold places migrate to warmer regions in winter.
11. Almost everyone agreed with each other.
12. The cruel king was hated by all his subjects.
13. The entire town was destroyed by the earthquake.
14. The newly-wed couple bought a house in the city.
15. A loud noise woke me up in the middle of the night.
16. Mother and father along with my brother have gone out.
17. How the people crowd the station.
18. Can you tell me the name of the girl?
19. Take this message to the central office.

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C. Cross out [x] the wrong verb forms in the boxes and complete the paragraph

I ¹[has/had] a very good time during the holidays. We

²[spend/spent] two weeks with Aunt Susan’s family. My cousins and I ³[went/go] to the beach every evening. We ⁴ [built/build] sand castle ⁵[swam/swim] in the water. The huge waves ⁶[splash/splashed] all over us and we ⁷ [are/were] completely wet in no time. We ⁸ [bring/brought] home sea-shells and colorful pebbles. Uncle Tom ⁹ [take/took] to the zoo on one of the days. He ¹⁰[showed/show] us all the animals in their enclosures and ¹¹ [explain/explained] about them in detail. We all loved feeding the elephants. It ¹² [was/be] the most enjoyable time of the holidays.

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C. Cross out [x] the wrong verb forms in the boxes and complete the paragraph

I ¹[has/had] a very good time during the holidays. We

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Subject-Verb Agreement

Subject - Verb Agreement

Although you are probably already familiar with basic subject-verb agreement, this chapter begins with a quick review of basic agreement rules.

Subjects and verbs must AGREE with one another in number (singular or plural). Thus, if a subject is singular, its verb must also be singular; if a subject is plural, its verb must also be plural.

In the present tense, nouns and verbs form plurals in opposite ways: nouns ADD an s to the singular form; verbs REMOVE the s from the singular form.

These agreement rules do not apply to verbs used in the simple past tense without any helping verbs.

The agreement rules do, however, apply to the following helping verbs when they are used with a main verb: is-are, was-were, has-have, does-do.

The agreement rules do not apply to has-have when used as the SECOND helping verb in a pair.

They do NOT apply to any other helping verbs, such as can, could, shall, should, may, might, will, would, must.

The subject-verb agreement rules apply to all personal pronouns except I and you, which, although SINGULAR, require PLURAL forms of verbs.

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Active and Passive

Active Form

In active sentences, the thing doing the action is the subject of the sentence and the thing receiving the action is the object. Most sentences are active.

[Thing doing action] + [verb] + [thing receiving action]

Examples:

Passive Form

In passive sentences, the thing receiving the action is the subject of the sentence and the thing doing the action is optionally included near the end of the sentence. You can use the passive form if you think that the thing receiving the action is more important or should be emphasized. You can also use the passive form if you do not know who is doing the action or if you do not want to mention who is doing the action.

[Thing receiving action] + [be] + [past participle of verb] + [by] + [thing doing action]

Examples:

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Tenses

What is Tenses?

tense (noun): a form of a verb used to indicate the time, and sometimes the continuation or completeness, of an action in relation to the time of speaking. (From Latin tempus = time).

Tense is a method that we use in English to refer to time - past, present and future. Many languages use tenses to talk about time. Other languages have no tenses, but of course they can still talk about time, using different methods.
So, we talk about time in English with tenses. But, and this is a very big but:

we can also talk about time without using tenses (for example, going to is a special construction to talk about the future, it is not a tense)
one tense does not always talk about one time (see Tense & Time for more about this)

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Verb

What is a Verb?

The verb is perhaps the most important part of the sentence. A verb or compound verb asserts something about the subject of the sentence and express actions, events, or states of being. The verb or compound verb is the critical element of the predicate of a sentence.
In each of the following sentences, the verb or compound verb is highlighted:

Dracula bites his victims on the neck.

The verb "bites" describes the action Dracula takes.

In early October, Giselle will plant twenty tulip bulbs.

Here the compound verb "will plant" describes an action that will take place in the future.

My first teacher was Miss Crawford, but I remember the janitor Mr. Weatherbee more vividly.

In this sentence, the verb "was" (the simple past tense of "is") identifies a particular person and the verb "remember" describes a mental action.

Karl Creelman bicycled around the world in 1899, but his diaries and his bicycle were destroyed.

In this sentence, the compound verb "were destroyed" describes an action which took place in the past.

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Noun

What is a Noun?

A noun is a word used to name a person, animal, place, thing, and abstract idea. Nouns are usually the first words which small children learn. The highlighted words in the following sentences are all nouns:

Late last year our neighbours bought a goat.

Portia White was an opera singer.

The bus inspector looked at all the passengers' passes.

According to Plutarch, the library at Alexandria was destroyed in 48 B.C.

Philosophy is of little comfort to the starving.

A noun can function in a sentence as a subject, a direct object, an indirect object, a subject complement, an object complement, an appositive, an adjective or an adverb.