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Simple subject

What does it answer?

What must you find before the subject?

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Simple subject

Answers who or what preforms the verb/action.

The verb needs to be found before the subject.

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Subject Complement

What type of verb does it follow?

PA vs. PN?

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Subject Complement

Follows linking verbs.

Is split into predicate adjectives and predicate nominatives.

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Predicate

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Predicate

Verbs.

Such as, is, are, have been, were, can, do, ran, walked, loomed.

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Direct object

What does it follow?

What questions does it answer?

What order do you find it in?

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Direct object

Follows an action verb.

Answers what or whom.

AV, IO, DO

AV, DO, OC.

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Indirect object

What does it follow?

What must it come before?

What questions does it answer?

What order is it found in?

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Indirect object

Follows an action verb.

Comes before a direct object.

Answers to what or whom.

AV, IO, DO

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Objective compliment

What does it follow?

What does it do?

What order do you find it in?

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Objective Compliment

It follows a direct object.

It renames the direct object.

AV, DO, OC.

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Transitive Verb

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Transitive Verb

A verb with direct object.
Describes what or whom.

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Intransitive Verb

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Intransitive Verb

Describes when or how.

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