All of the sentence except the subject is called the predicate. How many parts must it contain?

Exercise 7

Decide which of the following groups of words are sentences. Arrange the subjects, copulas, and predicate attributes of the sentences in a table as shown below. Try to tell what sort of attribute each predicate attribute expresses.

Subject

Copula

Predicate Attribute

The house

is

large (quality)

The gloves

were

new (condition)

Fishes

swim

(action)

I

have been

studying (action)

These books

are

of great value (quality)

The ring

is

gold (material)

The boys

ran

(action)

The bird

has

flown (action)

A dog

barked

(action)

1. The flower is delicate.

2. The man is unhappy.

3. The pipes are lead.

4. The leaves of the plant are glossy. (§ 17).

5. The man is very old. (§ 17).

6. The boys built a snow fort.

7. That man is of great age.

8. That man is Mr. Allen. (§ 18).

9. That man is a lawyer. (§ 18).

10. You will be tired.

11. Your doll is here.

12. Children are playing.

13. The children played.

14. Silent was every child.

15. Our cow is a Jersey.

16. A beautiful bird singing.

17. The child was sleepy.

18. This book is the Jungle Book.

19. James Russell Lowell was a poet.

20. Brilliant were the leaves of the vine.

21. The pan shines.

22. The worst pest in my garden is quack grass.

23. Out of the tree flew a woodpecker.

24. There is my dog.

25. Perennial plants are of easy culture.

26. Green and broad was every tent.

27. The cattle are in the corn.

28. The sick man rests.