(Gerunds and infinitives as subjects)
Carrying a backpack that is too heavy can hurt your back.
Getting something from your backpack is easier if you take it off first.
To recover his backpack proved more difficult than he thought.
To be seen with a pink backpack proved extremely embarrassing to him.
no, every sentence needs a subject and a verb. waved is a verb but there is no subject. the subject is who or what is doing the verb.
The subject is he, and the verb is was.
Does it have a subject and a verb? The subject is "They" and the verb is "made" so it is a sentence. A proper sentence must have a subject and a verb and make sense.
Is is the verb in your sentence.
A subject can be used as a verb in a sentence by adding the appropriate conjugation for the subject acting as the verb. For example, in the sentence "The dog barks loudly," "dog" is the subject and "barks" is the verb.
The verb in the sentence is was, a linking verb(neighborhood=dark).
A sentence requires a subject and a verb, without those, it's not a sentence. "Into the water" is not a sentence; when you add a subject and a verb, "My keys fell into the water." you have a sentence. The subject is 'keys', the verb is 'fell'.
The sentence in which the verb is a linking verb uses the verb to connect the subject of the verb to more information about the subject. The linking verb will not express an action.
The verb in the sentence states what the subject does. The verb is the action or state of being that the subject performs or undergoes.
A sentence is a string of words with both a subject and a verb. A sentence without either a subject or a verb is incomplete.
which is not a verb
To find the subject of a sentence, identify who or what the sentence is about. The subject is typically a noun or pronoun that performs the action of the sentence. Look for the main verb in the sentence, and ask who or what is doing that action. That will be your subject.