Answer:
B. The lovely young ballet company
Explanation:
I will be completly honest! I am horrible at predicates so I looked it up and here is an example off the internet.
Here's an example. In the sentence "The wall is purple," the subject is "wall," the predicate adjective is "purple" and the linking verb is "is." So, it's subject, verb, and predicate adjective.
pred·i·cate
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nounGRAMMAR
/ˈpredəkət/
the part of a sentence or clause containing a verb and stating something about the subject (e.g., went home in John went home ).
"predicate adjective"
verb
/ˈpredəˌkāt/
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GRAMMAR•LOGIC
state, affirm, or assert (something) about the subject of a sentence or an argument of a proposition.
"a word that predicates something about its subject"
Answer:
A. to establish credibility, suggesting many want to hear his tale
Explanation:
In the excerpt from "Treasure Island," by Robert Louis Stevenson, the narrator directs attention to the number of credited men who wish to read his story, such as Squire Trelawney and Dr Livesey, who have asked him "to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island." Besides, the author creates interest by mentioning an undiscovered treasure and the arrival of a mysterious character in the narrator's life.
Given sentence: Some people fast for a period of time after Mardi Gras. In this, ‘people’ is the simple subject.
Answer: Option A
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A sentence consists of a subject and a verb, out of which the subject tends to define the area of focus in a sentence. When a simple noun is present in a subject, there is a noun which can add more meaning into the sentence when added and by doing so the noun is more focused.
Here people defined the as noun, the area of focus in a sentence. Fast is the verb to which there is more meaning added to the sentence. Without any subject, one cannot find a complete sentences.
