text: at the age of twenty-seven, ch'i pai-shih first studied painting. what is the simple and complete predicate? i need to know what the complete predicate and the simple predicate are in the sentence "at the age of twenty-seven, ch'i pai-shih first studied painting." can somebody tell me what they are? the simple predicate is-  painting. the complete predicate is- first studied.     i hope this helps!