Question

In which one of the following sentences is the simple subject also the complete subject?
A. Large and small dinosaurs stalked the grassy plains.
B. Cory drove to Middleton in his search for Eloise.
C. Detectives Homer Fry and Janine Small looked high and low for clues.
D. Crocodiles, quiet as logs, lurked on the riverbank

Answer 1

Hi, I'd sat that the correct answer is B. A cannot be correct, because the simple subject would be "dinosaurs", whereas the complete subject is "large and small dinosaurs", they don't match. C is a similar case - simple subject is "detectives", whereas the complete subject would be "detectives Homer Fry and Janine Small:. In D - simple subject is "crocodiles", whereas the complete subject is "crocodiles, quiet as logs". That leaves us with only one solution - "Cory" is both a simple and a complete subject.