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= Identifying Subjects, Predicates, and Compliments of Sentences =

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 * __Subject of a sentence:__
 * The subject of a sentence is the who or what of the sentence, usually the main person or thing mentioned in the sentence. The the following sentence the subject is italicized: //Sami// ran with the dogs. Sami is the subject of the sentence because she is the one doing the action of the sentence.
 * The subject is one of the two main constituents of a clause.
 * __Predicate of a sentence:__
 * The predicate of a sentence is the action of the sentence. The predicate tells what the subject is doing. Most likely it will be a verb. in the above sentence used for finding the subject, will be used again to find the predicate. the predicate will be italicized: Sami //ran// with the dogs. Ran is the predicate because it is what Sami, the subject is doing.
 * Speaking in traditional grammar, the predicate is the rest of the sentence apart from the subject.
 * __Complement of a sentence:__
 * A word or word group that completes the predicate in a sentence. The two kinds of complements are subject complements (which follow the verb be and other linking verbs) and object complements (which follow a direct object).
 * A complement is a word or phrase that is necessary to a sentence to make it complete.
 * Example: Sami ran //fast// with the dogs. Fast is the complement in this sentence.

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 * [[file:CH03PPt.ppt]]
 * on this PPT use only pages 3-5 to 3-6 and 3-14 to 3-15
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 * http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/satz/subpred.htm
 * http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/subjpred.html
 * http://www.supakoo.com/rick/papers/ETS%20Paper%202006.pdf