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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.

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