Practice Makes Perfect: Exploring Grammar - Muschla Gary Robert 2010
Hungry Toads
Subjects and predicates
Sentences
Toads are related to frogs, but toads spend more time on land. Scientists believe that toads eat a lot of insects during the summer. About how many insects might a single toad eat in one summer?
To answer the question, read each sentence below. Find the simple subject. Choose your answers from the underlined words. Write the letter that is below each simple subject in the space above its sentence number at the bottom of the page. You will need to divide the letters into words.
1. 
are 
in most 
of the world.
2. 
cannot tell the 
between a toad and a frog.
3. Unlike 
usually live on 
4. A 
is 
rough.
5. A toad’s back 
are 
than the back legs of 
6. 
can 
farther than 
7. In the 
hide in dark, cool places.
8. 
hunt 
at night.
9. 
hibernate 
the 
