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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

in the following sentences separate the subject and the predicate

the cat eats a rat.
  

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Subject and predicate.

What is the sentence about? What are you talking about when you say the sentence? That's the subject.
What is being said about the subject? What information are you giving about the subject? That's the predicate.

CJ
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Here is what my teachers taught me:

1. Take a sentence such as "The people in the room read newspapers from many countries."

a. Find the verb (the word that shows action).
i. The verb is "read."

2. Then ask: Who reads newspapers?

i. The answer is "The people in the room." So that is the subject.

3. All the other words after t
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Hi,
James M, this is my take reading this sentence.
James M"The people in the room read newspapers from many countries."
This sentence seems to look grammatically correct, but there is a tense issue associated with the context. Since the past tense of "read" is the same s present, we need to clarify its context by using a time modifier such as "every day",
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dimsumexpressHi,James M, this is my take reading this sentence.
Thank you very much. I shall try to be more careful in the future.

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