Question

Separate the Subject and the Predicate in the following sentence:
A guilty conscience needs no excuse.

• A. Subject: A guilty conscience needs; Predicate: no excuse
  
• B. Subject: A guilty conscience; Predicate: needs no excuse
  
• C. Subject: no excuse; Predicate: A guilty conscience needs
  
• D. Subject: needs no excuse; Predicate: A guilty conscience
  

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

A guilty conscience is being talked about in the sentence, followed by the verb needs, indicating that the former does the work in the sentence. Thus, A guilty conscience is the subject, the rest being the predicate, since it talks about the subject. hence, option A is the correct answer.