The subject
You learn to find the subject: who or what does the verb.
How to do the test
- Find the verb.
- Ask who or what does the verb.
- The answer is the subject.
Tap the subject. The tall man opened the door.
- Find the verb first: opened.
- Ask who or what opened: the tall man.
- The subject comes before the verb in a statement.
- The tall man is the subject.
More examples
Tap the subject. On Friday, our class visited the museum.
- Find the verb first: visited.
- Ask who or what visited: our class.
- The subject comes before the verb in a statement.
- Our class is the subject.
Tap the subject. Tom and Mia painted the fence.
- Find the verb first: painted.
- Ask who or what painted: Tom and Mia.
- The subject comes before the verb in a statement.
- Tom and Mia is the subject.