Printable Subject and Predicate Worksheets
Printable subject and predicate worksheets for 1st through 4th grade, with an answer key on every sheet. The sets below cover 4 different skills, so you can start where your child actually is. Available as fill in the blank and word problems.
Targeted Practice by Skill
About Subject and Predicate
What this skill is
Every complete sentence consists of two fundamental parts: the subject (the noun or pronoun naming who or what the sentence is about, plus its modifiers) and the predicate (the verb and all associated words telling what the subject does, is, or experiences). Solvers analyze simple and complete subjects/predicates, sentence division, subject-predicate parsing, syntactic analysis, verb phrase identification, and structural boundaries across grammar parsing, sentence diagramming, and writing revision.
When children learn it
Simple subjects and predicates are introduced in 2nd grade and 3rd grade. In 4th grade and 5th grade, students master complete subjects vs simple subjects, complete predicates vs simple predicates, compound subjects/predicates, and inverted sentence order across language arts units, grammar parsing drills, and essay editing.
Common Mistakes
- Dividing the sentence in the wrong location, putting adjectives belonging to the subject into the predicate side.
- Confusing the simple subject (single noun) with the complete subject (noun plus all descriptive modifiers).
- Missing helping verbs when identifying simple predicates (picking 'running' instead of 'was running' during sentence parsing).