Harvey's Elementary Grammar and Composition · Lesson 119 · Part 2: Part II: The parts of speech in full
86. Grammatical and logical subject and predicate
Goal: Your child can tell the bare subject and predicate from the subject and predicate with all their modifiers.
You'll need
- The book, open to this lesson
- Paper and a pencil (or a slate)
What's in the book
Lesson 119 defines the grammatical and logical subject and predicate with examples like "A great storm is raging."
The lesson, step by step
Review
Ask your child to shorten: Because it was late, we went home.
Bare and full
SayA great storm is raging.
Read:
The Grammatical Subject of a proposition is the unmodified subject.
The Complex or Logical Subject is the grammatical subject taken with all its modifiers.
Storm is the grammatical subject; "A great storm" is the logical subject.
The predicate too
Read:
The Grammatical Predicate of a proposition is the unmodified predicate.
The Complex or Logical Predicate is the grammatical predicate taken with all its modifiers.
The book's example: "The wind blows with great violence." Blows is the grammatical predicate; "blows with great violence" is the logical predicate.
Oral practice
Say long sentences; your child gives the grammatical subject and predicate, then the logical ones.
The exercise
The book says to point out the grammatical and logical subjects and predicates in any earlier exercises in analysis. Choose five sentences from earlier lessons.
Use it today
Find the bare subject in a long sentence from today's reading.
Answers to the book's problems
Answers depend on the sentences chosen. Example: "The young lambs are bleating in the meadows": grammatical subject lambs, logical subject The young lambs; grammatical predicate are bleating, logical predicate are bleating in the meadows.
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