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What is the subject of a sentence?
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| The subject of a sentence is the person, place, thing, or idea that is doing or being something |
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What is a verb in a sentence? |
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| a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence |
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| verbs that describe the subject or link the subject to some complement such as a predicate adjective or predicate noun. |
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| verbs that help the main verb in a sentence by extending the meaning of the verb. They add detail to how time is conveyed in a sentence. |
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| What is a compound subject? |
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| two or more individual noun phrases coordinated to form a single, longer noun phrase. |
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| a multi-word compound that functions as a single verb. |
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| part of a sentence containingthe verb and any direct or indirect object |
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| noun or pronoun that receives the action of a verb in a sentence |
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| What is an indirect object? |
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prepositional phrase in which the preposition to or for is not stated, but understood
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| What is a predicate nominative? |
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| a subject complement, a word orgroup of words that follows a linking verb or verb phrase such as is, are, was, has been, and can be |
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| What is a predicate adjective? |
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| a single adjective, or a phrase that includes an adjective and any modifiers |
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