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The simple predicate is always a verb.The boy walks to schoolIn this sentence the simple predicate is walks. The complete predicate is walks to school
the subject is bringing a dictionary to class and the predicate ia always a good idea.
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No, a predicate does not always contain a noun or a pronoun.A predicate is the part of the sentences that is not the subject or its modifiers. A predicate is the verb and the words that follow the verb that are related to that verb. A predicate may be just a verb.Examples sentences containing a predicate with no nouns or pronouns:Mary is driving. (the predicate is a verb only)She will come soon. (soon is an adverbmodifying the verb will come)Today is hot. (hot is an adjective, a predicate adjective).
The Simple Predicate of that sentence is hide. the verb of the sentence is always the simple predicate
A simple predicate is the main very that is in the predicate of a sentence. The simple predicate tells you what the subject is doing. An example is in the sentence My mom started the dryer, the word started is the simple predicate.
Are you referring to the definition to be simple or the definition of "simple predicate"? Anyway, I'm thinking that you mean the former. A simple predicate is the word that shows what is happening. In the before sentence, is is the simple predicate. "is the word that shows what is happening" is the whole predicate. A verb will not always be the simple predicate, and simple predicates will not always be 1 word.
Yes, that is the job of a predicate nominative, to rename the subject after a linking verb.
A pronoun functioning as a predicate nominative is always a subject pronoun.It was she. (it = she)
A verb.
Yes, you just have to wait because the Japaneese always get everything first. March 4th March 2011