Read the following sentences.
1) How many U.S. presidents can you name? (2) In the year 2000, U.S. citizens elected the 43rd president. (3) Some presidents were elected more than once. (4) Franklin Roosevelt, for example, was elected to four terms in office. (5) Many citizens would have given him their vote again, because he was so popular.
Question
Use the passage to answer the question.
In sentence 3, the underlined word is a/an _____.
(1 point)
subject
subject
predicate
predicate
direct object
direct object
indirect object
indirect object
In sentence 3, the underlined word is a/an predicate.
In sentence 3, the underlined word is a/an subject.
To answer this question, we need to identify the underlined word in sentence 3. Let's look at sentence 3 from the passage:
"Some presidents were elected more than once."
The underlined word in this sentence is "presidents." Now, we can determine its function in the sentence and identify the corresponding answer choice.
In this sentence, "presidents" is the subject of the sentence. It is the noun that the sentence is primarily about. Therefore, the correct answer is:
subject