Practice Makes Perfect: Exploring Grammar - Muschla Gary Robert 2010
Native American Explorer
Subjects and predicates
Sentences
In the early 1800s, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark explored the American west. A Native American woman helped them. Who was she?
To answer the question, read each sentence below. Find the simple predicates. Choose your answers from the underlined words. Write the letter beneath each simple predicate in the space above its sentence number at the bottom of the page.
1. In 1803, the United States 
a big 
from France.
2. 
land 
the 
Purchase.
3. Thomas Jefferson 
Lewis 
Clark 
explore the land.
4. In 1804, 
St. Louis.
5. They 
the wilderness.
6. 
in 1805, 
the Pacific.
7. Lewis and Clark 
journey.
8. 
more 
8,000 miles.
9. In time, the 
of the Louisiana Purchase 
several 
