What is the simple predicate and simple subject? -The five tigers have been eating more then usual.?

Answer 1

simple subject: tigers
simple predicate: have been eating

Answer 2

Mike, the others are correct, but let me explain why. Every sentence must have a NOUN part and a VERB part, at least. The NOUN part tells who or what the sentence is about. We call that the subject. The VERB part tells what the subject does or is. We call that the predicate.

The complete subject is that noun and all the words that help it. In your sentence "The five tigers" is the complete subject...TIGERS is what the sentence is about, and "the five" helps TIGERS. Usually the words that help it are in the same general vicinity as the main noun.

The complete predicate is that main verb (what's happening), eating, and all the words that help it..."have been eating more than usual." Again, usually the words that help the predicate are those pretty much on the same side of the sentence that the verb is on.

But when we get to the SIMPLE subject and SIMPLE predicate, we're talking about usually just ONE word on the subject side.....and as FEW words on the predicate side as it takes for the sentence to make sense. TIGERS EATING does not make sense. You have to use it's helping verbs. TIGERS BEEN EATING still doesn't make sense. TIGERS HAVE BEEN EATING makes sense, so there you have the simple subject and predicate.

Answer 3

subject= tigers
predicate= have been eating