Same directions as before
The three girls smiled and clapped their hands.
Would girls be the subject and clapped the verb?
Girls is the subject and clapped is a verb. But you forgot the other verb.
The other verb is smiled right
Yes, smiled.
Yes, in the given sentence, "girls" would be the subject and "clapped" would be the verb.
To identify the subject and verb in a sentence, you can follow these steps:
1. Identify the Action: Look for the main action or what is happening in the sentence. In this case, the action is "clapped."
2. Ask "Who" or "What" is performing the action: Identify the doer of the action by asking the question "Who" or "What" before the verb. In this case, the answer is "girls."
Therefore, "girls" is the subject of the sentence and "clapped" is the verb.