The McGraw-Hill College Handbook           Ex. 4.1: pp. 88-89

Subject and Predicate and Simple Subject and Verb Identification

  Some of the sentences have been rewritten from the originals in the textbook in order to place together all the words of the predicate.

 

  1. Ottawa/ finally has accepted, after many years, a land of self-rule for Canada’s Eskimos.

                                        Simple subject: Ottawa             Verb: has accepted 

  1. Twenty percent of the country /will be carved out from the Northwest Territory.

                                        Simple subject: percent             Verb: will be carved out 

  1. More than 17, 500 Eskimos/ will live in Nunauut, which means our land in Inuktituk, the Eskimo language.

                                    Simple subject: Eskimos            Verb: will live 

4. The vast region unfamiliar to most Canadians begins at the sixtieth degree of latitude and stretches more than fifteen hundred miles to Alert, the last settlement before the North Pole.

                                      Simple subject:  region               Verb: begins…stretches 

  1. Human traces / have been identified more than four thousand years back.

                                    Simple subject: traces               Verb: have been identified 

  1. Norsemen / explored the region during the eleventh century A.D.

                                    Simple subject:  Norsemen      Verb: explored 

  1. Maritime explorers, missionaries, and adventurers / followed.

                                    Simple subject:  explorers, missionaries, and adventurers Verb: followed 

  1. Ottawa, Canada’s capital city, / was required to assume responsibility for Eskimos by a 1939 court order.

                                    Simple subject: Ottawa             Verb: was required 

  1. Eskimos, or Inuit, / no longer hunt seals, whales, and polar bears as nomads.

                                    Simple subject:  Eskimos           Verb: hunt 

  1. Government centers with typical problems of urban life / now form the core of many Eskimo communities.

                                    Simple subject:  centers             Verb: form

  

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