Basic Grammar Lesson 3: Main Subject & Predicate

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The main subject is the one word that tells us what the sentence is about. The main predicate is the one word that tells us what the subject does.

It's a cold, clear, west coast autumn night. The frost is sparkling on the bushes. The waves are lapping against the dark shore. The last remaining cricket of the season seems to have a bit of a shiver in his chirp. Through the picture window we can see that the inside of the cottage is submerged in deep blue shadows except for the dancing orange light of a friendly fire where Marie rocks gently in her chair and uses examples from sample sentences to teach us how to reduce the subject and the predicate down to the main subject and the main predicate.

Workbook exercises and answer key are provided with this lesson.

Featured Music: 
Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata

This lesson is excerpted from the Basic Cozy English Grammar course. The full course was created by, and is available from, Splashes from the River. You can check out this and other courses from Splashes at www.splashesfromtheriver.com.

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Marie Sophia Rackham was born in 1934 and raised in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She earned degrees in English and Geography from the University of British Columbia, and spent thirteen years studying piano with the Royal Conservatory of Music.

She worked as a public school teacher for thirty-four years, teaching at all levels from kindergarten to grade twelve; and taught piano and theory privately in her own studio for fourteen years.

Over her many years of teaching language arts, Marie developed her own curriculum for teaching basic grammar and punctuation, which was eventually published through the local Teacher's Resource Center and made available to all the schools in...

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02/03/2012

~ Margi

Nice and simple explanations.

Subjects and Predicates

07/21/2009

~ brittanie

Main subjects and main predicates are kind of like one word subjects and predicates, just like the last video's definition of subject and predicate only SIMPLIFIED!

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