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English for Tourism & Hospitality (102) by Prof. Adel AlSheikh

Simple subject/predicate: As you can see from the
example sentences above both the subject and the
predicate can consist of many words. The simple
subject is the main word in the subject, and the simple
predicate is the main word in the predicate. The simple
subject is always a noun/pronoun and the simple
predicate is always a verb.

In the following sentences the simple subject is shown
in bold and the simple predicate is shown bold, italic
and underlined.

 My English teacher speaks a little Arabic.
 The young girl with the long black hair fell from her bike

yesterday in heavy rain.
 At the back of the line in the cafeteria yesterday was a

large brown dog with a yellow collar around its neck!
 My friend and I are going on holiday together this year.
 Your mother or your father must come to the meeting.
 Sitting in a tree at the bottom of the garden was a huge

black bird with long blue tail feathers.

From the last three examples sentences above you
will notice that the simple subjects and simple
predicates can be more than one word.

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