7sage, the definition of "subject" being "the thing that the sentence is about" is very misleading. The subject of a sentence is the thing doing the action.
I feel like I need more explanation in predicate I know it's a verb or it starts with a verb. just in one of the exercises I feel like I don't understand it yet. predicate is an action word in a statement?
@KilluhKatt The predicate is the part of the sentence that indicates what the subject is DOING (which usually requires a verb.)
So for the sentence "Dog eats."
"Dog"=Subject, "Eats"=Predicate.
For a longer sentence, "Dog eats lots of meat."
"Dog"=Subject, "eats lots of meat"=predicate.
That's all a predicate is, just the part of the sentence/phrase that indicates the action of the subject. Or it's the part of the sentence that makes the subject more specific. So instead of simply a dog, we have a dog who eats lots of meat. Specific.
I think what's important to remember for us LSAT takers is we have to be able to distinguish who/what the subject of a sentence is (like the main character) and what exactly they are doing, or what makes them unique. As long as you can do that, you're good.
Did anyone else learn English as a second language.. simply by learning to speak, read, and write... but never actually learned any of the basics? .... Just me?
@cmonc093 That's how most kids learn languages while growing up to be honest, if you ask most native speakers of any language to explain their own grammar they often won't actually know how to.
When looking at an LR questions should i be breaking the sentences down to digestable pieces (figuring out the subject and predicate) then finding the premise and conclusion, or vice versa?
now im confused if a noun and a verb make a sentence. and a noun and a verb make a clause and sentence has at least one clause but can have more than one where tf do subject and predicate come in??? everything seems like it means the same thing...
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A great grammatical linguist by the name of Lil Wayne once said "I got through that sentence like a subject and a predicate"
Solid comment.
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I feel like 7SAGE is amazing but in this lesson we could have been given a better example of subjects and predicates in a more complex way.
@ArmaniHunter05 In having made it this far without skipping anything, I agree. This felt lacking
the one thing i will be sure to remember thanks to lil wayne
Sentences must contain at least 1 clause.
Clauses must contain a subject and a predicate.
The subject must contain a noun. Subject = what the clause is about. (I.e., Dog)
The predicate must contain a verb. Predicate = what we want to say about the subject. (I.e., run)
Example: The dog can run.
Subject = The Dog (what the clause is about)
Predicate = can run (What the subject (the dog) is doing/saying).
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7sage, the definition of "subject" being "the thing that the sentence is about" is very misleading. The subject of a sentence is the thing doing the action.
#feedback I enjoyed the throwback to past lessons in this one
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I feel like I need more explanation in predicate I know it's a verb or it starts with a verb. just in one of the exercises I feel like I don't understand it yet. predicate is an action word in a statement?
@KilluhKatt it is what we are wanting to say about our subject.
@KilluhKatt The predicate is the part of the sentence that indicates what the subject is DOING (which usually requires a verb.)
So for the sentence "Dog eats."
"Dog"=Subject, "Eats"=Predicate.
For a longer sentence, "Dog eats lots of meat."
"Dog"=Subject, "eats lots of meat"=predicate.
That's all a predicate is, just the part of the sentence/phrase that indicates the action of the subject. Or it's the part of the sentence that makes the subject more specific. So instead of simply a dog, we have a dog who eats lots of meat. Specific.
I think what's important to remember for us LSAT takers is we have to be able to distinguish who/what the subject of a sentence is (like the main character) and what exactly they are doing, or what makes them unique. As long as you can do that, you're good.
Did anyone else learn English as a second language.. simply by learning to speak, read, and write... but never actually learned any of the basics? .... Just me?
@cmonc093 That's how most kids learn languages while growing up to be honest, if you ask most native speakers of any language to explain their own grammar they often won't actually know how to.
When looking at an LR questions should i be breaking the sentences down to digestable pieces (figuring out the subject and predicate) then finding the premise and conclusion, or vice versa?
Would it be accurate to say that subjects are always going to be nouns and predicates are always going to be verbs
The next lesson has introduced predicates and I now know that predicates will always have a verb and also usually an object. Thanks.
now im confused if a noun and a verb make a sentence. and a noun and a verb make a clause and sentence has at least one clause but can have more than one where tf do subject and predicate come in??? everything seems like it means the same thing...
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all clauses contain a subject and a predicate
the subject always contains a noun and is what the clause is about
the predicate must contain and usually start with a verb and is the thing that we want to say about the subject
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