Grammar and Language Workbook

9. Stacks of papers and books clutter and almost hide my desk.
10. Rose or purple would accent and define the upper portion of your painting.
11. Roger scrimped and saved for a more dependable car.
12. Jim, Chip, and Martin ate some of Bruce’s homemade chili.
 Writing Link
Write several sentences describing two people who live in your neighborhood.
Use at least one compound subject and one compound predicate in your sentences.

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Unit 2, Parts of the Sentence
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Grammar
Lesson 15
Order of Subject and Predicate
In most sentences, the subject comes before the predicate. In a sentence written in
inverted order
, the predicate comes before the subject.
Some sentences are written in inverted order for variety or special emphasis.
PREDICATE
SUBJECT
Near the downed airplane stands the injured pilot.
The subject also follows the predicate in sentences that begin with there or here.
PREDICATE SUBJECT
PREDICATE
SUBJECT
There is a convertible in the driveway.
Here on the desk are your car keys.
When the subject you is understood, the predicate appears without a subject.
UNDERSTOOD SUBJECT
PREDICATE
(You)
Read the novel.
 Exercise 1
Draw one line under each simple subject and two lines under each simple predicate.
Circle the number of any item that contains the understood subject you.
In that valley stands a series of Adena mounds and earthworks.
1. There sit your books on the dining room table.