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S.A.  \n1930  \nTHE BETTER-ENGLISH INSTITUTE OF AMERICA  \nCHICAGO  \n1933 and 1935  \nCHICAGO  \nTHE BETTER-SPEECH INSTITUTE OF AMERICA  \n# PRACTICAL ENGLISHAND EFFECTIVE SPEECH\n\nLESSON FOURGRAMMAR  \nN LESSON One we reviewed a number of important factsabout sentences,noting particularly that every sentence musthave two parts,the subject and the predicate.We studiedthe subject in some detail,but paid little attention to the predicate.Our simple process of identifying the predicate by eliminating thesubject proved helpful,but we should know something about thepredicate itself if we are to speak correctly.  \nIn the sentence,\"The boy hit the target,\"you readily identifythe boy as the complete subject of the sentence.Hit the target,being all that remains,is the predicate.Analyzing this predicate,we find that it consists of the verb hit and the word that receivesthe action of the verb,(the)target.The receiver of an action iscalled an object.Therefore the noun target is the object of theverb hit  \nThe following graphic presentation of this sentence shouldimpress upon your mind the relationship of the subject,the verb,and the object of the verb.  \nDoerAction ReceiverThe boy hit the target  \nNow let us analyze a series of sentences,to see whether wecan identify the subjects,verbs,and objects.  \n1.John struck James.  \n2.Dead they brought her soldier home.  \n3.Whom did he blame for the error?  \n4.They blamed Tom and him.  \n1.To identify the subject of the first sentence,repeat the verband ask who performed the action.The verb in this sentence isstruck.Who struck?The answer is John struck;John is there-fore the subject of the sentence.To identify the object,we repeatthe verb and ask what received the action.Struck what,or whom?The answer is struck James;the object of the verb is thereforeJames.  \n2.In the second sentence the verb is brought.Again we askwho brought.The answer is they brought;thus the subject ofthe sentence is they.Brought what?The answer is brought hersoldier;thus the object of the verb is soldier.  \n3.In the third sentence the verb is did blame.Who did blame?He did blame;he is the subject of the sentence.What is the ob-ject of did blame?The answer is simply the pronoun whom.  \n4.The verb in the fourth sentence is blamed.Who blamed?They blamed;the subject of the sentence is they.Blamed whom?The answer is Tom and him;therefore the object of blamed isTom and him.  \n## VOICE\n\nWhen the subject of the sentence does the acting,the verb issaid to be in the active voice.In the sentence,\"The boy hit thetarget,\"the subject of the sentence,the boy,is doing the acting;thus the verb,hit,is in the active voice.Remember that in theactive voice the subject acts.  \nWhen the subject receives the action,the verb is said to be inthe passive voice.The sentence,\"The target was hit,\"cannotillustrate the active voice because the target is not acting;it is  \nreceiving the action;that is,the subject of the sentence is inactive,or passive.Obviously,only transitive verbs can be used in thepassive voice.  \nWe form the passive voice by combining some form of theverb be (be,am,is,are,was,were,being,been","cbCaifwuejV4qssy","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifwuejV4qssy","pdf",2189401,"English","# Lesson Four\n## Grammar\n### Predicate, Subject, and Object\n## Voice\n### Active Voice\n### Passive Voice\n### Acting or Acted Upon\n## Transitive and Intransitive Verbs","[{\"question\":\"How do you identify the subject and predicate in a sentence?\",\"answer\":\"Identify the subject by asking who performed the action, and treat what remains after the subject as the predicate. 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