Select the correct description for the words in bold. melinda, a college student from maine, considers herself to be a very lucky person. a. simple subject b. complete subject c. compound subject

The simple subject is an individual noun or noun substitute acting as subject.

Simple Subject

The correct answer is A. simple subject.

Subject is a word, phrase, or even a clause, that does the action within a sentence, or experiences some sort of state. There are different types of subjects:

1. simple subject - consists of one word only; in the sentence above, the subject is the word Melinda

2. complete subject - contains all words connected to the simple subject; if the underlined part of the sentence was Melinda, a college student from Maine, then it would be a complete, rather than a simple subject

3. compound subject - contains more than one subject, connected with the conjunction and; for example, Melinda and Bob

the answer is:

when will (v) the books (n) be (v) due?

nouns refer to people (other than pronouns), places and things, whereas verbs describe actions and are usually part of the predicate of a sentence. finally, pronouns can work as nouns and identify the participants in speech.

in the example sentence, "will" is a verb part or auxiliary verb, "be" is an infinitive verb and "books" is a plural noun.