what is the subject,verb,and complement in the following sentence...has the planning committee announced the date of the school carnival?
First, turn the sentence around and make it a statement:
The planning committee has announced the date of the school carnival.
The verb is has announced.
To find the subject, ask, "Who has announced?"
The find the complement, ask "What has it announced?"
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I know what these parts of this sentence are, but the assignment asks if YOU KNOW what they are. Please use these sites to help you with identifying parts of a sentence:
http://www.chompchomp.com/terms.htm
http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/partse.html
See the list on the left for specific terms.
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Thank you for the links...they did kind of help.English is just very hard for me to get an understanding of...I get so confused!But again Thank you and i will keep trying to figure things out from those two sites.
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In the sentence "Has the planning committee announced the date of the school carnival?", the subject is "the planning committee," the verb is "has announced," and the complement is "the date of the school carnival."
To identify the subject, you can ask the question "Who or what has announced?" and the answer will be "the planning committee."
To find the verb, you can ask "What action has been taken?" or "What is the planning committee doing?" The answer is "has announced."
Lastly, the complement can be determined by asking "What has been announced?" and the answer is "the date of the school carnival." The complement provides additional information about the subject or object of the sentence.