Question

This should be easy, but I am having trouble...need to find subject of sentence....

Answer 1

also the verb that goes with it.

Currently, 90% of the people in my neighborhood (have/has) cats.

Can 90% be the subject ?

Answer 2

@whpalmer4 .....can you answer this english question....or maybe just look at it

Answer 3

@hartnn ....help

Answer 4

@primeralph ....can you help

Answer 5

I thought " of the people n my neighborhood " prep phrases

Answer 6

prep phrases cannot contain the subject

Answer 7

can a number, like 90% be a subject ?

Answer 8

Replace 90% with the phrase "the majority" and see if it works as a subject.

Answer 9

that would work....but I can't just stick majority in there. I can't change the sentence

Answer 10

What I'm saying is that "the people" is still the subject because you can replace 90% and still be talking about something similar. Can't do that with "the people".

Answer 11

90% is just a quantifier.

Answer 12

but isn't " of the people " a prep phrase ?

Answer 13

Many birds have died. Many can't be the subject.

Answer 14

I see that...many is an adj and birds is the sub.....but a prep phrase cannot contain the sub

Answer 15

@Preetha ...can you please help me

Answer 16

This is the part where I falter: the part where you say this can't do that and blah blah. I don't have the rules memorized because I don't even know what these things are called.
I just know how to place them.
Here, it's plural though.

Answer 17

thank you so much.....English is not my best subject

Answer 18

@hartnn ....pleeeeesssseeeeee help

Answer 19

@ganeshie8 ....please take a look at this

Answer 20

@timo86m ,@ganeshie8 .....please take a quick look at this

Answer 21

@ganeshie8 ...help

Answer 22

isn't usually subject verb object?

Currently, 90% of the people in my neighborhood (have/has) cats.
90% of people is Subjcet have cats is object.

I THINK!

Answer 23

hmmm....I didn't look at it like that....I thought " of the people" was a prep phrase

Answer 24

I am just gonna put what you said.....thank you so much

Answer 25

It is lonely herein the English section...lol

Answer 26

prep phrase?

Answer 27

primeralph said " majority " of the people, and that would make sense, but I can't change the sentence

Answer 28

a prep phrase is just a prepositional phrase

Answer 29

and I do know that a prepositional phrase cannot contain the subject

Answer 30

Most of the pie in my fridge has been eaten.
Easy to see the subject here. Same story to me.

Answer 31

is most the subject...because " of the pie "is a prep phrase

Answer 32

without the prep phrases, the sentence would read : most has been eaten

Answer 33

could the subject be 90% ?

Answer 34

I am just gonna put 90% of the people as the subject...I am spending too much time on this question...thank you everybody....

Answer 35

I will close this now

Answer 36

"90% have cats" is the essential framework of this sentence. Everything else is just decoration.

Answer 37

so 90% is the subject ?

Answer 38

I changed my mind, I put 90% as the subject, I just wrote it out , like this :
Ninety percent (as the subject)
have as the verb

Answer 39

i think people is subjcet

Answer 40

I turn this in when I go back to school.....in Aug......this is summer homework. It will be a long wait till I find out the correct answer :/

Answer 41

Again, 90% is the subject. Have is the verb. Cats is the direct object. Everything else is decoration.

Currently is an adverb modifying have.
"in my neighborhood" is a prepositional phrase modifying people
"of the people" is a prepositional phrase modifying 90%

there wouldn't be any argument if the sentence read "Currently, all of the people in my neighborhood have cats", would there? All have cats.

I believe 90% is an atom here, but I could see someone arguing that 90 is an adjective modifying percent, despite the fact that "percent have cats" makes no sense as a sentence.