What Is The Simple Subject. In the sentence you presented, the simple sentence is areas. A few additional examples will help clarify the difference between simple and complete subjects.
Simple subjects and simple predicates A sentence has a subject and predicate and expresses a complete thought. A compound subject is a subject that is made up of two or more simple subjects, connected by conjunctions such as and, but, or. A simple subject is the noun or pronoun in the sentence that is doing the action.
In the sentence: "Read and prepare a report for the social studies class". what is the simple subject?
The verb is carrying out the action or linking the subject to further information.
The question here is, what is the simple subject? Note: The word "nails" plays no role in determining the number of the verb.) (The subject is singular even though the simple subject is plural. It does not matter what they do, just that there is only one.