Question

Separate the Subject and the Predicate in the following sentence.
All roads lead to Rome.
(a)Subject- Rome; Predicate- All roads lead to
(b)Subject- All roads; Predicate- Lead to Rome
(c)Subject- All; Predicate- roads Lead to Rome
(d)Subject- Lead to Rome; Predicate- All roads

Answer 1

Hint: Read the given sentence and understand what it is trying to convey. You need to point out ‘what the sentence is talking about’. Once you know ‘the topic of discussion’, point out ‘what it is telling about’ that particular topic.

Complete answer: A sentence is made up of two main parts- A subject and a predicate. A subject refers to the person or object who is acting in the sentence while a predicate gives information about the subject.
As given in the hint, the predicate talks about the subject by giving details about it.
Let’s look at the usage of subject and predicate-
For example- The boys are playing in the park. Here, ‘the boys’ is the subject because the sentence is talking about them and ‘are playing in the park’ is the predicate because it contains a verb and provides details about the subject.
In the given question- We can conclude that ‘all roads’ is the subject because we are talking about all roads while ‘lead to Rome’ is the predicate because it provides information about the subject.
Now, let’s examine the given options-
Option a- ‘Subject- Rome; Predicate- All roads lead to’ is an incorrect option because ‘Rome’ is not the subject. We are talking about ‘all roads’ in the sentence. Hence, ‘all roads’ is the subject.
Option b- ‘Subject- All roads; Predicate- Lead to Rome’ is the correct option because we are talking about ‘all roads’ in the sentence.
Option c- ‘Subject- All; Predicate- Roads Lead to Rome’ is an incorrect option because both ‘all roads’ is the subject.
Option d- ‘Subject- Lead to Rome; Predicate- All roads’ is an incorrect option because ‘lead to Rome’ is the predicate.
The correct answer is Option ‘b’.

Note: Keep in mind, the subject can include a noun or a pronoun while the predicate includes verbs and other parts of speech.