from the school is known to all that the predicate and the subject - these are the main parts of the sentence.However, not everyone fully understood, which means this mysterious definition.Let's try to fill the gaps in our knowledge and to understand in detail what is the predicate and subject.What parts of speech they can be expressed?And in what cases are divided into letter punctuation mark such as a hyphen?
Determination
To understand what is the predicate and the subject, it is necessary to understand their definitions.
The subject - this is one of the main parts of the sentence, to answer questions: who ?or that ?and designating the subject that is being discussed in the proposal. in the entire edge of the warm weather .In this example, the word "weather" acts as a subject (ie, the subject of the speech), and he depends on those grammatical features which will receive another major member of this sentence - predicate.
predicate - this is one of the main parts of the sentence, to answer questions:
Ways of expression subject and predicate
This is one of the most difficult issues in the described subject.After all, to understand what is the predicate and the subject, you must know how to identify them in the speech.
The subject
subject of a sentence can be expressed in such parts of speech:
- noun or pronoun (in the paragraph IV.). establish good weather.
- adjectives, numerals or participle (in I. p.).Seven of not wait.
- composite structures:
- numeral + noun: the room crammed multitude ;
- adjective + preposition + noun: Best of athletes did not start the competition ;
- pronoun + adjective or participle: Something rustled in a light air ;
- noun + preposition + noun: Elena and her husband came to visit friends.
- infinitive. smoking - health harm .
predicate
predicate in a sentence can be expressed in the following parts of speech:
- verb (simple or compound). Marina dreams of becoming a biologist.
- nouns. Victor - my only love.
- adjective or participle. How rich nature of the Ural Mountains!
dash between subject and predicate
The table below illustrates the cases in which the principal terms
proposals are divided into writing this punctuation.
| cases when put dashes | Examples |
| noun.in I. n. - n.in I. p. | My years - my wealth |
| noun.in paragraph IV. - vb.neoprene.f. | main task for the newlyweds - to learn to understand each other |
| vb.neoprene.f.- Vb.neoprene.f. | smoking - health harm |
| vb.neoprene.f.- Noun.in I. p. | Loving is an art - |
| noun.in paragraph IV. - idiomatic expression | My friend - a shirt-guy! |
| quant.number.- Quant.number. | Six Seven - forty-two |
| quant.number.- Noun.in I. p. | Eight hundred meters - the length of the treadmill stadium |
| noun.in paragraph IV. - quant.number. | depth of our pool - four meters |
should remember what the predicate and the subject, and the fact that the change of place in a sentence, they are changing their functions. My best friend - Julia . Julia - my best friend.
