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प्रश्न
What is subject and predicate Explain with an example?
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उत्तर
Subject and predicate: A word or a phrase in a sentence that shows who or what does the action, is the subject.
The predicate is the part of a sentence that tells us something about the subject
example: The baby is laughing.
subject: The baby
Predicate: is laughing.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Use the following expression to make a sentence of your own.
to surmise
Underline the clauses in the below sentence and also the words that link or connect the clauses.
Nobody knows for certain who the author of these epics is.
Identify the character, speaker, or both of the following line.
Come and see! See what the Germans are doing!
Pick out the contractions from the lesson and expand them.
| Contractions | Expansions |
Find out the anagrams. Use a pair of phrases as clues.
- Something used to water plants ______
- A thing you put on your foot ______
Choose the correct plural form.
Dog
Write the correct clipped word on the line.
I saw him in the ___________ (laboratory).
They came early but there was ______work to do.
Complete the following sentence with modal using the clue given.
I______ to play hockey when I was a student. (past habit)
We have seen that clauses are parts of a sentence, and they are classified as main and subordinate or dependent clauses. Dependent clauses can be further classified as follows according to the work they do in a sentence.
How do we decide whether a clause is a noun clause, an adjective clause or an adverb clause? There is a simple rule - we can replace an adverb clause with an adverb, an adjective clause with an adjective and a noun clause with a noun.
Look at the following examples -
- But I don’t know the answer. (Noun)
But I don’t know what they want. (Noun clause) - He told us a funny story. (Adjective)
He told us a story that was funny. (Adjective clause) - They went away. (Adverb)
They went when you were talking to your friend. (Adverb clause)
Now complete the following on your own :
- But I don’t know ____________.
- He told us ____________.
- They went ____________.
