- [Voiceover] Hello, grammarians. Hello, Paige. - [Paige] Hi, David. - [David] Today we're going to talk about identifying subjects and predicates and in order to do that, weshall begin with a sentence. Paige, would you readme the sentence, please? - [Paige] I bought a crate of goblin hats. - [David] Thank you, Paige. So Paige, do you thinkthat's hats for goblins, or hats that make you look like a goblin? - [Paige] Well, I bought it, so I can say that it is both. - [David] So we could go eitherway is what you're saying. - [Paige] (Laughs) Oh, yeah. - [David] A sentence iskind of a like a car. It's got a lot of differentparts, like an engine, or wheels, or a body, whatever. A sentence is very much the same way and you can divide upa sentence into parts. Today, we're going to bedividing up the sentence into subject and predicate. Paige, what is the subject of a sentence? - [Paige] The subjectis a noun or a pronoun that is doing the action in the sentence or performing the verb. - [David] What does thatmean to perform a verb? - [Paige] Right, so a verbisn't always an action, right? That's why I wanted to clarify. - [David] Mm-hmm. - [Paige] Because youcan say, 'I am happy.' Am is a verb, but that's notan action that I'm doing. - [David] Right, youcan't just actively am. - [Paige] Right. (laughs) - [David] But in thesentence, 'I am happy,' the subject I is performingthe verb to be, or am. - [Paige] Right. - [David] Gotcha. What is a predicate? - [Paige] A predicate is allof the rest of the sentence that isn't the subject. What it really is is the verb and all of the parts thatare related to the verb. Yeah, verb and its pals, that's good. - [David] Let's apply thatapproach to goblin hat sentence. - [Paige] Mm-hmm. - [David] Okay, so I'mlooking for a noun or pronoun that performs a verb in the sentence. Well, I found the verband the verb is bought. Who's doing the buying? I am. - [Paige] Right. - [David] So our subject is I. - [Paige] Yeah. - [David] Then predicate is basically everything else, right? It's bought, what did I buy? A crate of goblin hats. - [Paige] Right. You can see that a crate of goblin hats is also a noun, right? But it's not doinganything in the sentence. I am buying. - [David] Just because there's a noun, just because there's anothernoun in the sentence, like crate or goblin hats,doesn't necessarily mean that it's the subject. - [Paige] Right. - [David] So you have tolook for the thing that is performing the verb. - [Paige] Exactly. - [David] Paige, I thinkthat covers everything except exactly what a goblin hat is,but we can talk about that some other time. - [Paige] Yeah. - [David] That's identifyingsubjects and predicates. You can learn anything. David out. - [Paige] Paige out.