{"id":4082,"date":"2013-06-27T17:27:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T17:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/?page_id=4082"},"modified":"2025-11-28T11:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T17:23:08","slug":"what-is-a-predicate","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/what-is-a-predicate\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Predicate?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t<div id=\"mmDeferVideoEncompass_5r6RsmDKfrE\" style=\"position: relative;\">\n\t\t\t<picture>\n\t\t\t\t<source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/circle-play-duotone.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\">\n\t\t\t\t<source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/circle-play-duotone.png\" type=\"image\/jpeg\"> \n\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" id=\"videoThumbnailImage_5r6RsmDKfrE\" data-source-videoID=\"5r6RsmDKfrE\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/circle-play-duotone.png\" alt=\"What is a Predicate? 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Well, a predicate, along with a subject of a sentence, makes the sentence whole.<\/p>\n<p>The subject of a sentence tells who is going to do the action of the sentence and the predicate tells what that action is going to be.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at this first sentence. <\/p>\n<div class=\"transcriptcallout\">The friends hike frequently.<\/div>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe subject of this sentence is <em>friends<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So what is the verb of this sentence? Well, since the subject tells us who is going to do the action and the predicate tells us what that action is going to be, then it only makes sense here that the verb is going to be what the friends will be doing.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the friends here will be hiking, so <em>hike<\/em> is the verb. Put two lines under it to show that it&#8217;s the verb. <em>Friends<\/em> is the subject, so friends is going to be the people doing the action in this sentence. The predicate tell us what that action is going to be.<\/p>\n<div class=\"transcriptcallout\">The friends have been hiking.<\/div>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nHere again, <em>friends<\/em> is the subject. What is the verb here?<\/p>\n<p>Well, you look at <em>hiking<\/em>. You know that&#8217;s a verb, and <em>have<\/em> and <em>been<\/em> are also verbs as well. <em>Have<\/em> and <em>been<\/em> are what we call helping verbs cause they&#8217;re helping <em>hiking<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The subject here says that <em>friends<\/em> is going to be doing the action, and the predicate tells us what that action is going to be.<\/p>\n<div class=\"transcriptcallout\">The friends hike and camp.<\/div>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<em>Friends<\/em>, again, is the subject, so <em>friends<\/em> is going to be the people doing the action in this sentence. Well, what&#8217;s the predicate here? Well, you know <em>hike<\/em> is a verb but <em>camp<\/em> is also a verb. So here you have two verbs because the friends are going to be doing more than one thing.<\/p>\n<p>So remember when looking at a predicate just remember that a predicate is what completes the sentence. 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