Question

Separate the following sentence into subject and predicate:
Nature is the best physician.
a) Subject : Nature is the; Predicate: best physician.
b) Subject : physicians; Predicate: Nature is best.
c) Subject : the best physician; Predicate: Nature is.
d) Subject : Nature; Predicate: is the best physician.

Answer 1

Hint: Any given sentence, which has complete meaning and is not a phrase, will have one subject and one predicate in it. The subject is the one that will have the object of the sentence.

Complete answer:
> The subject of any sentence could be a noun, a pronoun, or even an entire phrase or clause. The subject is what (or whom) the sentence is about, while the predicate tells something about the subject in the further sentence. In the given question, we have to find out the subject and the predicate of the given sentence. Here, the sentence is talking about “nature”, by which it is clear that “nature” is the subject of this sentence.
Now, let us examine all the given options to find out the correct answer:
Option ‘a’ – It is an incorrect option as we won’t take “is the” in the subject part, it will get into the predicate part.
Option ‘b’ – It is also an incorrect option as the sentence is based on the word ‘nature’ and not ‘physicians'. “Nature” has to be the subject of the sentence rather than “physicians”.
Option ‘c’ – It is an incorrect option because again, “nature” is the subject of the sentence, not “physician”.
Option ‘d' – It is the correct option because the word nature is the topic of discussion, doing the work in the sentence, as indicated by the verb is. Thus, nature is the subject and the rest of the sentence, talking about the subject, is the predicate. 

Hence, option ‘d’ is the correct option.

Note: Be careful with the sentences that begin with “there” plus “to be”. In such sentences, “there” is not the subject, it signals that the actual subject will follow.