Subject and predicate?

[Yura Reiri]

" She is beautiful," said the girl.

WHich is the subject and the predicate?

[Bennevis]

Correct me if I'm wrong but in this sentence the subject is "she" and the predicate is "is beautiful" (the whole thing). I guess in grammar they call it the compound nominal predicate.

[Rover_KE]

Could it be argued that 'the girl' is the subject and 'said "She is beautiful'" is the predicate?

Rover

[Afit]

" She is beautiful," said the girl.

WHich is the subject and the predicate?

The subject in a sentence denotes the thing that the sentence is about. This sentence is about "the girl" who said something. Predicate equals sentence minus subject.

[Afit]

Could it be argued that 'the girl' is the subject and 'said "She is beautiful'" is the predicate?

Rover

Jawohl! Richtig!

[TheParser]

Could it be argued that 'the girl' is the subject and 'said "She is beautiful'" is the predicate?

Rover

***** NOT A TEACHER *****


(1) Teacher Rover and Member Afit have both given us much food for thought.

(2) The answer seems to depend on which authority you choose to believe.

YES

(3) Dorothy said, "My mother's on the phone."

(a) "In some respects the direct speech functions as a subordinate clause."

(b) The direct speech seems to be a direct object [my emphasis].

(c) On the other hand [my emphasis], we can view the reporting clause

["Dorothy said"} as subordinate, functioning as an adverbial.

SOURCE: Randolph Quirk et al. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English

Language (1985), pp. 1022 - 1023.

NO

(4) "You have until six o'clock tonight to make up your mind," he said brusquely.

(a) "The parenthetical quoting expression he said brusquely may be disregarded

in analyzing the statement You have until six o'clock to make up your mind."


SOURCE: R.W. Pence and D.W. Emery. A Grammar of Present-Day English
(1963), pages 142 - 143.