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The Writing Centre

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Answer

Question:
His terror of spiders kept him out of the dark basement.
Answer:
"Kept him out of the dark basement" is the predicate because it contains the verb "kept" and it tells us something about the subject, "his terror of spiders."
 
 
 

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