Use the sentence to answer the question.

Question

Use the sentence to answer the question.

The sailboat with the yellow stripes on its sails drifted across the lake.

Which of the following is the subject of the sentence?

(1 point)
Responses

sailboat
sailboat

stripes
stripes

sails
sails

lake

Answer 1

The subject of a sentence is the noun or pronoun that performs the action of the verb. In this sentence, the subject is "sailboat" because it is the entity that is doing the action of drifting across the lake. So, the correct answer is "sailboat."

Answer 2

Use the sentence to answer the question.

sailboat

The subject of a sentence is the noun or pronoun that performs the action of the verb. In this sentence, the subject is "sailboat" because it is the entity that is doing the action of drifting across the lake. So, the correct answer is "sailboat."

The subject of the sentence is "sailboat."