Identifying Subjects

For each of the following sentences, identify the subject.

For help with this exercise, see section 17a of Focus on Reading and Writing.

  1. Question

    The first satellite was launched into space by the Russians in 1957.

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    C.
    D.

  2. Question

    It was called Sputnik I.

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    B.
    C.
    D.

  3. Question

    Several thousand satellites now circle our planet.

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    B.
    C.
    D.

  4. Question

    These metallic objects in the sky do a variety of jobs.

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    B.
    C.
    D.

  5. Question

    Some gather weather and environmental information for us.

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    B.
    C.
    D.

Identifying Subjects 2

For each of the following sentences, identify the subject.

For help with this exercise, see section 17a of Focus on Reading and Writing.

  1. Question

    In spite of its association with American popular culture, television was actually invented in England.

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    B.
    C.
    D.

  2. Question

    With his business career cut short by illness, John Logie Baird had time on his hands.

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    B.
    C.
    D.

  3. Question

    His workshop had been the attic of his home.

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    B.
    C.
    D.

  4. Question

    With crude equipment, he began experimenting with light projection.

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    B.
    C.
    D.

  5. Question

    Like many of the pictures that came later, the first picture was a face.

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    C.
    D.