A simple predicate is a verb or verb phrase—and that's all.
Simple Predicate Verb. This type does not contain verbal form, it is just a noun or an adjective. To find the predicate, simply look for what the subject is.
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A simple predicate is a verb or verb phrase—and that's all. She looked up his phone number in the directory. This is a verb phrase in a simple or compound tense form, in active or passive voice 2.
The verbs are joined by a conjunction and make the sentence more declarative.
At the heart of every predicate is a verb, and finding that is a good starting point for identifying the predicate. The simple predicate is the key word in the predicate or verb part of the sentence. To find the predicate, simply ask, what is the subject doing? the complete predicate will be the part of the sentence that contains the verb and all its modifiers (whereas the simple predicate is only the verb). There are two competing notions of the predicate in grammar.
