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2. Our class teacher baked a chocolate cake.

In the above sentences, the highligthed words are the subjects, and the underlined
words are verbs. Let us see what happens if we remove either the subject or the

verb.

1. The children music.

2. baked a chocolate cake.

These sentences don’t make sense. Thus, we see that every sentence should have a

subject and a verb in order to make complete sense.

1. Subject

A subject is a person, an animal, a thing or a place we talk about in a sentence.

A subject may consists of one word or many words .

Examples : (a) The lion is roaring.

(b) Rohan is going to Delhi.

(c) My pen is very lucky.

The words the lion, Rohan and my pen are called subjects .

2. Predicate

A predicate is what we talk about the subject. A predicate may consist of one

word or many words. It must have a verb.

Examples : (a) The lion is roaring .

(b) Rohan is going to Delhi .

(c) My pen is very lucky .

The words is roaring, is going to Delhi and is very lucky are called predicates .

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1. Underline the predicates in the following sentences. One is done for you :
(a) Honesty is the best policy.
(b) Varun went to Malaysia yesterday.
(c) How fiercely the wind blows!
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