SUBJECT AND PREDICATE BY KULESH CH DEKA

SUBJECT AND PREDICATE

By

KULESH CH DEKA

SUBJECT AND PREDICATE  By  KULESH CH DEKA

Every complete sentence contains two parts: Subject and Predicate.

When we make a sentence. 

i)We name some person or thing

ii) We say something about that thing or person

In other words we must have a subject to speak about and we must say or predicate something about that subject.

Therefore, a sentence has two parts

1) The parts which name the person or thing we are speaking about- this part of a sentence is called the Subject of the sentence. In sentences other words the subject of a sentence is what or whom the sentence is about.

2) The other part tells something about the subject. This part is called the Predicate of the sentence. The predicate of a sentence is that part of the sentence or a clause, that tells what the subject is doing or what the subject is.

For example

The man is reading a novel in the room.

Here the phrase 'The man' is the subject as the speaker tells us what the man is doing.

Again the part 'is reading a novel' is said about the subject. This part of the sentence is called the predicate.

The subject of the sentence usually comes first.

Rajiv is a student.

His father came here yesterday.

But a subject may occasionally be put after the predicate.

Here comes the bus!

There goes our leader!

Sweet are the uses of adversity.

In Imperative sentences subject is left out

Come here.

Read your lessons regularly.

 (Here subject you is left out)

Sometimes the subject may be placed between two parts of the predicate.

In the morning I met a beggar on the road.

Coming back home, he began to cook meal.