" Movies about real people interest me.''
2007-09-18 11:35:26 · 7 answers · asked by ................ 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
OK, here's the way to do this:
Remove all the prepositional phrases. In this sentence "about real people" is a prepositional phrase. "About" is the preposition, "people" is the object of the preposition, and "real" modifies "people".
Now you're left with "Movies interest me." You should be able to take it from here.
When in doubt, removing prepositional phrases from a sentence will nearly always reveal the true subject. What is confusing you is that the object of a preposition is a noun, and when there are a lot of nouns in a sentence they all tend to look like a subject. Find the prepositions and kill them off. The subject and verb will survive. Trust me.
2007-09-18 11:49:36 · answer #1 · answered by teacher93514 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Movies
2007-09-18 18:42:00 · answer #2 · answered by Miss Sally Anne 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Movies
2007-09-18 18:39:38 · answer #3 · answered by Red Ibanez 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Movies about the real people are interesting to me.
2007-09-18 23:31:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The subject is movies.
Eliminating the extraneous words, you could say "Movies interest me." Which movies? The ones about real people.
It would not be the same to say "People interest me."
And by the way, it's "grammar."
2007-09-18 18:47:04 · answer #5 · answered by dogsafire 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I enjoy movies that are autobiographies.
2007-09-18 18:49:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no thats wrong its people
2007-09-18 18:44:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋