We know that a sentence is made up of two main parts: a subject and a predicate. The subject is what we are talking about, and the predicate is what we say about the subject. Look at the sentence below:<\/p>\n
The big black eagle<\/span> sailed effortlessly in the air.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The words in red<\/span> make up the subject of the sentence, and the words in green<\/span> make up the predicate.<\/p>\n Obviously what we are talking about is “the big black eagle”, and what we say about it is that it “sailed effortlessly in the air”.<\/p>\n The words “sailed effortlessly in the air” make up the complete predicate, but there is one word that is most important in the phrase. The word “sailed” is the key<\/em> or most important word in the predicate. This is the simple predicate<\/em>. All other words in the complete predicate add meaning to the simple predicate. The most important word in the predicate part of the sentence is called the simple predicate<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n In the sentences below, the words in green make up the complete predicate and the underlined word in green is the simple predicate.<\/p>\n