Practice Makes Perfect: Exploring Grammar - Muschla Gary Robert 2010

First Flight
Subjects and predicates
Sentences

Orville and Wilbur Wright were the first men to fly an airplane. Where in North Carolina did this first flight take place?

To answer the question, read the article below. Find the simple predicate in each sentence. Start with the first sentence. Then write the letters beneath the simple predicates in order in the spaces at the bottom of the page.

Wilbur Orville Wright At one they bicycles. But to fly. they gliders. A glider an an engine. It the wind. The Wright brothers much about from their gliders. Next, they with a propeller. In 1903, Orville the first airplane flight.