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we are not
rang the doorbell is a predicate
Mom needs help
Example sentence: I will clean the house."Will" replaced with "About to": I am about to clean the house."Will" replaced with "going to": I am going to clean the house.
House State Street
The complete predicate is "owned a house" and the verb is "owned."
brought our two dogs inside the house is the predicate.
we are not
A sentence is made up of a subject and a predicate. A predicate is a verb and 'everything else'. I'm not sure what you mean by a simple predicate but a predicate could just be a verb e.g. I ran or I ran away or it could be a sentence with a verb and an object e.g. I saw him or I left the house.
A sentence requires a subject and predicate. That means a noun and a verb that are in agreement with one another (in terms of singular and plural). A phrase is not a complete sentence. It is a little group of words that go together and function together in some way.Here is a very short but complete sentence:She laughs.You have a subject (a pronoun, which stands "for" ["pro"] a noun) and a verb that agrees with it--that is, both are singular.Here is a very long phrase that is not a complete sentence. This happens to be a prepositional phrase because it begins with a preposition ("in") and ends with the object of the preposition (the noun "house"). All the rest is description of the noun at the end.in the large, ramshackle, isolated, abandoned, and allegedly haunted house(You would not really write like this, we hope, but it would be a correct and grammatical phrase if you did.)If you have a subject and a verb that make a complete sentence, you can't call it a phrase. If all you have is a phrase, you don't have a sentence.
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rang the doorbell is a predicate
'There is a dog' is the complete subject of the sentence. It consists of the subject 'dog' and the linking verb 'is'.
rang the doorbell is a predicate
The house had the characteristic of poor maintenance.
The subject is car, the predicate is stopped.
Direct objects receive the action of the verb.Carl built a house. (a house is the direct object)Indirect objects receive the direct object.Martha handed me her hat. (her hat is the direct object; me is the indirect object)Predicate nominatives and predicate adjectives follow a linking verb and rename or describe the subject.Carl is a carpenter. (a carpenter is the predicate nominative)Martha is happy. (happy is the predicate adjective)