Question

How do you determine subject and predicate in questions? How do you find the simple/compound subject and the simple/compound predicate in a question?

Answer 1

Hint: A sentence is made up of different parts. A subject and a predicate are parts of a sentence. A subject is the part which is being discussed or talked about and the predicate is the part which tells us something about the subject. We will discuss these in detail in the complete answer below.

Complete answer:
Let us discuss what is a subject and a predicate and also about a simple/compound subject and a simple/compound predicate.

The subject of the sentence is what (or whom) the sentence is about. In the sentence “The woman is sleeping in the sun,” the word woman is the subject.
A predicate is the part of a sentence, or a clause, that tells what the subject is doing or what the subject is all about. Let’s take the same sentence from before:-“The woman is sleeping in the sun.” The clause sleeping in the sun is the predicate; it’s dictating what the woman is doing.

A simple subject is the one in which the doer of the action is a single subject. Example:- Mary had a little lamb.
A compound subject is the one in which the doer of the action is a multiple subject. Example:- Mary and Roma had a little lamb each.
Similarly,
A simple predicate is the one in which the action being done is just one. Example:- Mary ate a lamb.
A complex subject is the one in which the action being done is more than one. Example:- Mary ate a lamb and drank some juice.

Note:Sometimes, a sentence can have a compound subject as well as a compound predicate. Example: Diana and Roma both ate, sang and danced together in the party. Here, ‘Diana and Roma’ are compound subjects whereas ‘ate, sang and danced together’ are compound predicates.