Question

Separate the last three chunks from the rest of the sentence. Can you find a subject and a verb on this chunk? What does it mean when a group of words has a subject and verb? For this sentence. The pesticides are blown by the wind into the foothills where many of the remaining frogs live.

Answer 1

"The pesticides are blown by the wind into the foothills where many of the remaining frogs live."

The subject of the sentence: "The pesticides"

The verb in the sentence: "blown"

Step-by-step explanation:

Most sentence contain a subject and verb as they are used to express an idea. Sentences without a subject are phrases.

The subject of a sentence is the performer of the action in a sentence.

It answers the question "what", "Who".

Like the example given, it answers the question, "what is blown by the wind?"

The answer is *the pesticides"

A verb is an action or doing word.