Sometimes it can be hard to find the subject of a sentence because more than one person, place or thing is mentioned. There may be MANY nouns in a sentence, but only one (or two in some cases) will be the subject. In order to determine which noun (or group of nouns) is the subject of the sentence, ask who or what the sentence is about, or who/what is actually doing the action.
“My nephew went to the store.”
My nephew is a person, a noun AND the subject of the sentence because the sentence is about him and what he is doing. However, the store is also a noun because it is a place (or a thing, depending on how you look at it).
Again: there may be MANY nouns in a sentence, but only one will be the subject. Another way of putting it is that all subjects are nouns, but not all nouns are subjects.
In this worksheet, you’ll be marking all of the nouns. For extra practice: Which noun is the subject of the sentence?
We used this worksheet recently to find simple subjects and predicates. This time, mark the subject of the sentence one way, and mark the other nouns in the sentence in a different way.