Read the sentence. prior to receiving the acceptance letter that the college sent, shazia worried that she would not be accepted. the simple predicate of this sentence is the word “.”

correct answer worried

The simple predicate of this sentence is the word "worried".

Explanation: The simple predicate is the main verb in the predicate of a sentence, that is to say the verb that indicates what the subject is or what the subject is doing. Moreover, in order to identify the simple predicate in a sentence, it is necessary to recognize which is the main clause. In the case of this sentence, the main clause is "Shazia worried that she would not be accepted". Althought there is more than one verb in the main clause, the only main verb is "worried" because the other verbs are part of a that-clause. In that way, "worried" functions as the simple predicate since it is also indicating what the subject (Shazia) is feeling.