Question

in the sentence waiting for its mother to return the lion cub lay motionless in the grass what is the simple predicate in this sentence

Answer 1

A predicate is the part of a sentence that has a verb and the subject. The subject is the lion cub.. Now a verb is an action word. The part of the sentence that includes the subject and a verb would be "The lion cub lay" or "The lion cub lay motionless".