32 Eni Grade 1o-STUDY GUIDE 5. She always sleeps lightly 6. The store closed You must sign your signature 8. He loves you 9. The President vetoed the bill. 10. Bill saw a snake. Subjet Verh-Predicate Nominatihe-Action vertbs are not he only kind of verbs that have a called or pronoun after them. Linking verbs may also have a noun or pronoun, tives, following them. The sentence pattern is then the subject-verb-predicate tive (S-v-PN) pattern. The word in the predicate nominative position is the same person nomina or thing as the word in the subject position. svPN Examples: Bill is a runner. (Bill and the runner are the same person.) S V PN It is 1. (It and I are the same person.) NOTE: Subject pronouns are used after a linking verb, since the predicate nominative and the subject are the same person, the words should be interchangeable. EXERCISE 2.6 Label the subject (S), verb (V), and predicate nominative (PN) in each sentence. The first one is done for you. PN I. A few years ago, she was a loyal republican 2. Congressmen are our representatives. 3. At the time, we were students. 4. It was he on the phone. 5. I am an American 6. The acrobat is a great performer