Taking dangerous risks seems to frighten most hardworking
people.
What + Verb + The
rest of the Sentence?
(What) seems to frighten most hardworking people?
The answer is: Taking
dangerous risks.
So Taking dangerous risks is the subject of the sentence.
Exercise #1: Finding Verbs & Subjects
1. Change the following sentences to the future or past to find
the word. If you try past, and the word
doesn’t change, then the sentence may already be in the past, so the verb won’t
change. Then try the future.2. After you change the tense/time, underline the word(s) that change (i.e. the verb).3. After you find the verb, find the subject (who or what is doing the verb). Bold the verb.
Example:
(will
take)
(Next year) It took
me a long time to recover from my illness.
(wanted)
(In the past) I never want to see that look on her face
again. Want would change to wanted so
want is the verb.
1. Sports have many
benefits for our lives.
2. They help us
develop strong bodies and they make us independent.
3. Competition
teaches us about fair play and sportsmanship.
4. When people play
sports regularly, they live longer lives with healthier hearts.
5. Excelling at
sports makes us proud of ourselves and losing sometimes motivates us to do
better.6. But not all of us
agree that sports are beneficial for kids.
7. Parents get too
involved in their children’s success at times.
8. They argue and
cause problems at their children’s games.
9. They blame their
kids when the kids lose or play poorly.10. This causes children to feel
low self-esteem.