In this assignment you’re asked to identify both the verbs and the subjects in eight sentences, four in English and four in Spanish.

The first sentence is in English, and translated into Spanish for question 5.

Remember, the subject of a sentence is literally the person, or thing, that the sentence is about. In simple sentences such as this, or “Mark is my roommate”, the subject is the only named person, Mark.

It seems weird to think about sometimes, but “being” is an act in itself. When we say that “Mark is my roommate”, the word “is” is actually the verb of the sentence, as Mark “is being” the roommate. While it’s somewhat confusing to talk about grammatically, it’s a fairly simple concept that is covered on page 12.

*Susana* is the subject, *is* is the verb.

In this question, the sentence is, again, in English, and can be seen as a continuation of the previous sentence. “She”, in this case, stands for Susana, and just as “my friend” was the description of who Susana is, in this question, “from Spain” is the description of who Susana is. And, as before, the verb “to be” remains the verb, or the action, of Susana.

*She* is the subject, *is* is the verb.

In this question, you’re asked to identify the subject and verb in a sentence introducing your teacher, Mrs. García. By now you should be able to see that all these sentences are constructed in a similar way:

*subject* — *verb* — *descriptive phrase*.

As we’ve seen, the verb in these sentences is *is/es*. If we plug other parts of this sentence into our outline, we can see that the subject of this one is Mrs. García.

*Mrs. García* is the subject, *is* is the verb.

This question asks you to find the subject and verb in another English sentence, this one conceivably a continuation from the previous sentence about Mrs. García. Look back at question 2 from this exercise, as it is a similar construction to this one, with the pronoun “she” standing in for the proper noun (in this case, Mrs. García).

*She* is the subject, *is* is the verb.

This question is asking for the subject and verb of the Spanish translation of sentence number 1 in this exercise. The Spanish construction of these sentences exactly mirrors the English translations, so this shouldn’t be too hard if you answered questions 1-4.

*Susana* is the subject, *es* is the verb.

This sentence construction is a little trickier since it isn’t something we have in English. As mentioned on page 12, the subject can be left out of a sentence in Spanish if the listener already knows who you’re talking about. Therefore, you won’t find a subject in this sentence since we’ve already established that the subject is Susana (or, the subject pronoun *she*). The sentence, therefore, begins with the verb.

The verb is *es*, and the subject is omitted from this sentence.

This question asks us to find the subject and verb in the Spanish translation of question 3.
As previously mentioned, the sentence construction remains the same from English to Spanish with these specific sentences. That is subject -> verb -> description. So our sentence begins with the subject (*La señora García*), followed by the verb (*es*)

The subject is *La señora García*, the verb is *es*.

As in question 6, the absence of a proper noun (La señora García) or a subject pronoun (ella) doesn’t negate the fact that there is in fact a subject in this sentence. Since we’ve already established who we’re talking about, it can be omitted from the following sentence.

The subject is is omitted from this sentence, and the verb is *es*.