Directions: In your Subject, Predicate, and Object notes, add “Practice” in the skinny box. In the big box next to that category, identify the simple subject and simple predicate in each of the following sentences.
1. Ever since colonial times, Americans have made quilts.
2. Traditional designs, with names like Honeycomb, Tumbling Blocks, and Double Diamond, have been handed down from generation to generation.
3. The designs on this page are quilt blocks from a modern quilt.
4. They certainly don’t look like grandma’s quilts!
5. However, quilting techniques have stayed basically the same for over a hundred years.
6. Small scraps of bright cloth are still painstakingly stitched together to create each block.
7. As in many antique quilts, each quilt block shown here was designed and sewn by a different person.
8. Some of the designs are simple.
9. In others, colorful details bring circus scenes to life.
10. A dark background is sometimes chosen to set off the brilliant colors of a quilt.
1. Ever since colonial times, Americans have made quilts.
2. Traditional designs, with names like Honeycomb, Tumbling Blocks, and Double Diamond, have been handed down from generation to generation.
3. The designs on this page are quilt blocks from a modern quilt.
4. They certainly don’t look like grandma’s quilts!
5. However, quilting techniques have stayed basically the same for over a hundred years.
6. Small scraps of bright cloth are still painstakingly stitched together to create each block.
7. As in many antique quilts, each quilt block shown here was designed and sewn by a different person.
8. Some of the designs are simple.
9. In others, colorful details bring circus scenes to life.
10. A dark background is sometimes chosen to set off the brilliant colors of a quilt.