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他是学生
他 is the subject，the word 是 is the Predicate of this sentence, and the word 学生 is the Object.
As same as in English, Chinese have also had a basic sentence structure witch contains only one simple subject and a simple predicate.
See this sentence:他晕倒了。
In this sentence, 他 is the subject while the phrase "晕倒了" is the predicate.