The Sentence
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The Parts of the Sentence
There is not a
direct correspondence between the parts of the sentence and the parts of speech
-- the subject of a sentence, for example, could be a noun, a pronoun, or even
an entire phrase or clause.
Subject and Predicate
Every complete sentence contains
two parts: a subject and a predicate. The subject
is what (or whom) the sentence is about, while the predicate tells something
about the subject. In the following sentences, the predicate is enclosed in
braces ({}), while the subject is highlighted.
Judy {runs}.
Judy and her dog {run on the beach every morning}.
To determine
the subject of a sentence, first isolate the verb and then make a question by
placing "who?" or "what?" before it -- the answer is the
subject.
The audience littered the theatre floor with torn wrappings and spilled
popcorn.
The verb in the
above sentence is "littered." Who or what littered? The audience did.
"The audience" is the subject of the sentence. The predicate (which
always includes the verb) goes on to relate something about the subject: what
about the audience? It "littered the theatre floor with torn wrappings and
spilled popcorn."
Types of sentence
Simple it expresses one idea examples:
·
Spider-man
will save Mary jane
·
Christopher
Columbus discovered America in 1492
Compound it expresses two ideas joined with a conjunction word (and, or, but) examples:
·
The
English language is really interesting and
it is spoken around
·
in
the food I eat soup but my brother
will not eat
Complex it expresses two ideas joined with a relative pronoun (Which, who,
that, where, when, while, because).
·
Microsoft
developers the best O.S which is
called windows system
·
Toyota
produce the car best of the world that
is the best sold
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