The now famous Carl Sandburg was born in 1878 in Galesburg, Illinois.

What is "Carl Sandburg" in the above sentence?

A.) simple object

B.) simple predicate

C.) complete subject

D.) complete predicate

C is the answer. Carl Sandburg is the simple subject because he is the main focus of the simple sentence ‘Carl Sandburg was born’. ’The now famous Carl Sandburg’ is a complete subject. ‘Was born’ is the simple predicate and ‘was born in 1878 in Galesburg, Illinois’ is the complete predicate.