Writing: Framing Your Thoughts - Predicate Expanders (Where)

In a typical sentence, there is a subject (who/what the sentence is about - person, place, thing) and a predicate (the action done by/to/for the subject - a verb). For instance, a basic, bare-bone sentence may say:

The cow ran.

We know that the predicate for this sentence is ran, but if we needed to explain more about the cow running, we need to use predicate expanders. A predicate expander helps makes the predicate stronger. These expanders help explain more about the predicate: how, why, where, and when. We have these predicate expander triangles posted up in our room to help us describe our predicates:

Today, we focused on where the action takes place. By adding where to our predicate, we can describe the location of the action taking place. We can take our bare-bone sentence above and have the cow run anywhere we want!

The cow ran outside.
The cow ran toward the park.
The cow ran across the street.

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