What is the predicate in this sentence? Pablo smelled the freshly baked pies and cakes.?!
What is the predicate in this sentence? Pablo smelled the freshly baked pies and cakes.?
Answers: Subject and Predicate
Every complete sentence contains two parts: a subject and a predicate. The subject is what (or whom) the sentence is about, while the predicate tells something about the subject. In the following sentences, the predicate is enclosed in braces ({}), while the subject is highlighted.
Judy {runs}.
Judy and her dog {run on the beach every morning}.
To determine the subject of a sentence, first isolate the verb and then make a question by placing "who?" or "what?" before it -- the answer is the subject.
The audience littered the theater floor with torn wrappings and spilled popcorn.
The verb in the above sentence is "littered." Who or what littered? The audience did. "The audience" is the subject of the sentence. The predicate (which always includes the verb) goes on to relate something about the subject: what about the audience? It "littered the theater floor with torn wrappings and spilled popcorn."
This will help you. The predicate is smelled. predicate means verb. "smelled the freshly baked pies and cakes". The main subject in this sentence is the fresh baked pies and cakes. so the secondary subject would be SMELLED which in my humble opinion would be the predicate, a predicate is an expression that can be true of something, when you say somethang like that pizza was the bomb,the pizza was the main subject and the bomb was the predicate. smelled the freshly baked pies and cakes
Bob jumped the fence= jumped the fence
Mary ate the pie= Ate the pie
simple! Pablo is the subject, the rest of the sentence is the predicate. The predicate is the part of the sentence after the verb. The subject is the part of the sentence before the verb.
Subject: Pablo
Verb: smelled
Predicate: the freshly baked pies and cakes