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Complete Subject vs Simple Subject?

My daughter has an assignment where she is supposed to underline the Complete Subject and write the Simple Subject.
There's a difference?
I don't understand my daughter's 4th grade homework assignment!

Help? Or should I say, HELP!
  

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[nq:1]My daughter has an assignment where she is supposed to underline the Complete Subject and write the Simple Subject. There's a difference? I don't understand my daughter's 4th grade homework assignment!

  • [nq:1]My daughter has an assignment where she is supposed to underline the Complete Subject and write the Simple Subject.
  • There's a difference?
  • I don't understand my daughter's 4th grade homework assignment!
  • Help?
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[nq:1]My daughter has an assignment where she is supposed to underline the Complete Subject and write the Simple Subject. There's a difference? I don't understand my daughter's 4th grade homework assignment! Help? Or should I say, HELP![/nq]
I searched Google for:
"complete subject" "simple subject'
with the quotes
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[nq:1]My daughter has an assignment where she is supposed to underline the Complete Subject and write the Simple Subject. There's a difference? I don't understand my daughter's 4th grade homework assignment! Help? Or should I say, HELP![/nq]
I suspect that your daughter is in an American public school.

If you wish to keep her there, then you must follow her homework assignments with a
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[nq:1]My daughter has an assignment where she is supposed to underline the Complete Subject and write the Simple Subject. There's a difference? I don't understand my daughter's 4th grade homework assignment![/nq]
Here's an explanation from The Perrin-Smith Handbook of Current English (1962), using terminology and an approach that our linguistics-oriented friends may find distasteful:
"The
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In our last episode, , the lovely and talented The Grammer Genious broadcast on alt.usage.english:
[nq:2]My daughter has an assignment where she is supposed to ... 4th grade homework assignment! Help? Or should I say, HELP![/nq]
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[nq:2]My daughter has an assignment where she is supposed to ... difference? I don't understand my daughter's 4th grade homework assignment![/nq]
[nq:1]Here's an explanation from The Perrin-Smith Handbook of Current English (1962), using terminology and an approach that our ... words modifying it: /The British submarine/." Terms like "the starting point of the statement" are admittedly vague b
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Thanks AUE!
You've all been helpful.
JS
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[nq:1]I have discovered that one of the worst things a teacher can do it to attempt to teach a student something the student does not already know.[/nq]
Especially, when it is going to be of no possible use to the student or anyone else.

Rob Bannister

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