The subject of this sentence is 'Tourists'. The predicate of this sentence is 'watched the ships in the harbour'.
The word 'elf' is a noun; a word for a person.A noun functions as the subject of a sentence or clause, and as the object of a verb or a preposition.Examples:An elf sat on a rock by the pond. (subject of the sentence)I didn't recognize the song that the elf sang. (subject of the relative clause)We watched the elf as he did a little dance. (direct object of the verb 'watched')We never spoke to the elf. (object of the preposition 'to')
The object from the active sentence goes to the subject position in the passive (only it is not called the subject in the passive sentence) egYouThe verb form for passive is be + past participle. In this example ( present continuous) it is not as straight forward as present simple or past simple but the verb phrase becomesare being watched.You are being watchedThe subject of the active sentence is called the agent in a passive sentence and can be left out of the passive sentence if you want. If you want to add the agent then you use by + agent:You are being watched by the teacher
A sentence with the word 'blew' could be 'I watched as the kite blew in the wind.'
Example sentence - I watched as the horses handsomely trotted down the lane.
He watched the beautiful woman ascend the stairs.
The noun in the sentence is Cindy; a proper noun, the name of a person; the subject of the sentence.
The word 'elf' is a noun; a word for a person.A noun functions as the subject of a sentence or clause, and as the object of a verb or a preposition.Examples:An elf sat on a rock by the pond. (subject of the sentence)I didn't recognize the song that the elf sang. (subject of the relative clause)We watched the elf as he did a little dance. (direct object of the verb 'watched')We never spoke to the elf. (object of the preposition 'to')
"The canoe with the blue stripes" is the fragment, a noun phrase with no verb. The phrase is the subject or the object of a sentence, but it isn't a sentence. Samples of the completed sentence with the subject and the verb in bold:Subject: The canoe with the blue stripes isMr. Jones' canoe.Object of the verb: I rented the canoe with the blue stripes.Object of a preposition: I saw him in the canoe with the blue stripes.The following are complete sentences, the subject and the verb in bold:The truth can be unpleasant.The rams locked horns and the tourists watchedthem from far away.The dancer floated across the stage.
The word 'squirrels' is a plural noun. A noun can function as the subject of a sentence or a clause, and as the object of a verb or a preposition.Examples:The squirrels feasted on spilled popcorn. (subject of the sentence)The tree that the squirrels inhabited was just above the park vendors' wagons. (subject of the relative clause)The toddler watched the squirrels intently. (direct object of the verb 'watched')The girl threw a piece of her cookie to the squirrels. (object of the preposition 'to')
The phrase "before you watched me swim" is a dependent clause (meaning that it couldn't stand along as a sentence).
"The dog ate his food""Peter watched the television""To drink eight glasses of water a day is healthy"
run - We run to school everyday. walks - She walks to school drove - They drove to school have watched - They have watched the movie. was watching - She was watching the TV. will run - We will run to school tomorrow
I watched tv.
You can use the pluck method in a programming context, such as in Ruby on Rails, to select specific attributes from a collection of objects. For example, if you have a collection of sentences stored as objects, you can use pluck to extract a specific attribute or field from those objects, such as extracting the words or characters from each sentence.
I watched as the bird flew by. (Past tense of watch, so something that you already saw)
Example sentence - We watched the osprey build its nest on the top of the light pole.
The sentinel watched as I passed by.