11. In which one of the following sentences is the simple subject also the complete subject?
A. Crocodiles, quiet as logs, lurked on the riverbank.
B. Detectives Homer Fry and Janine Small looked high and low for clues.
C. Large and small dinosaurs stalked the grassy plains.
D. Cory drove to Middleton in his search for Eloise.
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The simple subject is only one word, with no modifiers. Which of your sentences has only one word for the subject?
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To determine which sentence in the options has the simple subject also being the complete subject, let's first understand what a simple subject and a complete subject refer to:
- Simple Subject: It is the main noun or pronoun in a sentence that tells us what or who the sentence is about.
- Complete Subject: It includes the simple subject and all the words that modify or describe it.
Let's analyze each sentence to identify the simple subject and the complete subject:
A. Crocodiles, quiet as logs, lurked on the riverbank.
- Simple Subject: Crocodiles
- Complete Subject: Crocodiles, quiet as logs
B. Detectives Homer Fry and Janine Small looked high and low for clues.
- Simple Subject: Detectives
- Complete Subject: Detectives Homer Fry and Janine Small
C. Large and small dinosaurs stalked the grassy plains.
- Simple Subject: Dinosaurs
- Complete Subject: Large and small dinosaurs
D. Cory drove to Middleton in his search for Eloise.
- Simple Subject: Cory
- Complete Subject: Cory
Based on the analysis above, the sentence in which the simple subject is also the complete subject is:
D. Cory drove to Middleton in his search for Eloise.
In this sentence, the simple subject "Cory" is the complete subject as well because there are no modifiers or additional words describing Cory in this sentence.