What is the predicate? Is it everything after the subject?
In grammar, the predicate is the statement made about a subject. The grammatical predicate is either a simple verb, or a verb with its complement or object. So, the predicate is the part of a sentence or clause that expresses what is said of the subject and that usually consists of a verb with or without objects, complements, or adverbial modifiers. The predicate ascribes a property to the subject. The predicates are underlined here: She wrote a book. The book is on the table. Art can be controversial. The earth trembled. So, in the simplest pattern, the predicate consists only of the verb. There are five patterns of predicates: 1) The earth trembled – verbs in this pattern do not require following words to complete their meaning and thus are called intransitive (from Latin meaning ‘not passing over’). 2) The earthquake destroyed the city – the predicate consists of a verb followed by a noun that identifies who or what receives the action of the verb. This noun is a direct object. Verb
