Subjects and predicates | Syntax | Khan Academy Video Lecture | Complete Course on English Grammar: Upgrade your Speaking & Listening - Personal Skills

hello grammarians hello Paige hi David
so today we're going to talk about
identifying subjects and predicates and
in order to do that we shall begin with
a sentence Paige would read me the
sentence please I bought a crate of
goblin hats Thank You Paige so Paige do
you think that's like hats for goblins
or has to make you look like a goblin um
well I bought it so I can say that it is
both so we could go either way it's what
you're saying oh yeah so a sentence is
kind of like a car it's got a lot of
different parts right like an engine or
wheels or a body whatever ascendance is
very much the same way and you can
divide up a sentence into parts and so
today we're going to be dividing up the
sentence into subject and predicate
Paige what is the subject of a sentence
so the subject is a noun or a pronoun
that is doing the action in the sentence
or performing the verb what does that
mean to perform a verb right so a verb
isn't always an action right that's why
I wanted to clarify because you can say
like I am happy and am is a verb but
that's not like an action that I'm doing
right you can't just actively am right
but in this sentence I am happy the
subject I is performing the verb to be
or am right gotcha
what is a predicate so a predicate is
kind of all of the rest of the sentence
that isn't the subject so what it really
is is like the verb and all of its all
of the parts that are related to the
verb yeah bourbon it spells that's good
so let's apply that approach to goblin
hat sentence hmm so okay so I'm looking
for a noun or pronoun that performs a
verb in the sentence well I found the
verb and the verb is bought who's doing
the buying I am so our subject is I yeah
and then predicate is basically
everything else right so it's bought
what did I buy a crate of goblin hats
right so you can see that a creative
goblin hats is also a noun right but
it's not doing anything in the sentence
I am buying so just because there's a
noun just because there's another noun
in the sentence like crate or goblin
hats doesn't necessarily mean that it's
subject right so you have to look for
the thing that is performing the verb
exactly so I think page I think that
covers everything except exactly what a
goblin hat is but we can talk about that
some other time yeah
so that's identifying subjects and
predicates you can learn anything David
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