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Old 20-Sep-2006, 01:27
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Default Re: subject and predicate

You understand it very well. Farmers is the subject, everything else is the predicate. Usually modifies the verb work, therefore it must be part of the verb phrase (predicate).

The subject could be longer: The farmers I've seen or The farmers who live on this side of the river or any description imaginable. Farmers and any other words that describe them is the subject of the sentence.
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