Question

On a sheet of paper, write five compound subjects and five predicates. Then cut them out. Mix and match the compound subjects and predicates. What silly sentences can you make?

Answer 1

Answer:

Some of the compound subjects are given below:

1. The Red and White earbuds
2. My beginning and ending
3. The Author and Financier
4. His wife and legal consultant
5. He is Judge and executioner

Some predicates are as given below

1. Will rise again
2. cannot return to the company the way it is
3. coming to set the table
4. travelling for the holidays
5. walking like a sergeant

When mixed together in no particular arrangement intentional matching we have:

1. The Red and White earbuds will rise again
2. My beginning and end cannot return to the company the way it is
3. The Author and Financier coming to set the table
4. His wife and legal consultant traveling for the holidays
5. He is the Judge and executioner walking like a sergeant

Explanation:

When two or more individual nouns or noun phrases are combined to form a single or longer noun phrase, it is called a compound subject. In other words,  When more than one noun is put together to act as a single subject, it is said to behave as a compound subject. For example, "My son and partner will run this company when I travel out of the country". In the sentence above, the compound subject is "My son and partner".

Predicates on the other hand are parts of a sentence that contains the action words or phrases about a subject. For example, "The truck has been sold" . The part of the sentence that reads "has been sold" is the predicate. Whilst the subject is the Truck.

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