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Answer

Question:
Despite the storm's destructiveness, the ship, with its crew of amateurs, might have survived in more experienced hands.
Answer:
"Despite the storm's destructiveness,...might have survived in more experienced hands" is the predicate because it contains the verb "might have survived" and it tells us something about the subject, "the ship, with its crew of amateurs."
 

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