ESL Grammar: SUBJECTS AND VERBS (3) – Review Lesson

This ESL grammar lesson gives students chances to practice identifying the subjects and verbs of various sentences.

Mastering subjects and verbs is essential for constructing clear and correct sentences in English. This review lesson will help you identify subjects and verbs in sentences, reinforcing your foundational grammar skills.

ESL Grammar: What is a Subject?

The subject is the person, place, thing, or idea that the sentence is about. It performs the action or is described by the verb.

Examples:

• Lisa dances. (Lisa is the subject)
• The dog barks. (The dog is the subject)
• Water flows. (Water is the subject)

ESL Grammar: What is a Verb?

A verb expresses an action or a state of being. It tells what the subject is doing or what condition the subject is in.

Examples:

• Lisa dances. (dances is the action verb)
• The dog barks. (barks is the action verb)
• Water flows. (flows is the action verb)

The beginner-level grammar lesson below reviews the concepts of subjects and verbs in a clear and simple manner to help young ESL learners to understand this concept. Our series of ESL grammar lessons on subjects and verbs introduce these concepts and reinforce them through helpful and instructive exercises.

This lesson is available for free download, and you can download many more English grammar lessons focusing on all different parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and lots more!) in our comprehensive, beginner-level ESL grammar textbook Great, Great Grammar! (Book 1: Parts of Speech).