The Sentence in English Grammar

What is sentence?

A group of words that makes complete sense is called a sentence.

It contains a subject and a predicate, and is able to stand on its own.

Subject: the subject is the word or group of words that tell as to what or whom we are talking about.

Predicate: the predicate is the part of the sentence that makes a statement about the subject as to what is doing or something concerning the subject.

1: study the following sentence carefully.

Subjects	Predicates
My cat The pencil The boys	Has whiskers Is broken Are playing football

The above sentence expresses a complete thought, hence they are called complete sentence. In many sentence the subjects may comprise of just a single word, but more often the subject consists of two or more words.

Simple subject and simple predicate

Every subject in a particular sentence is a particular word around which the sentence is built. This particular word is called the simple subject. It is usually a noun or a pronoun.

Example: the boy fell down.

The main word is the sentence is the word boy; therefore boy is the simple subject.

Compound subject and compound predicate

Often we may see that a sentence includes two or more subjects and more than one simple predicate. These sentences are termed as compound sentences.

Example: a thief and a dacoit were caught yesterday.

In the above sentence, there are two subjects, thief and dacoit. Has a compound subject.

Example: the maid washed and dried the clothes.

In the above sentences the subject is the ‘maid’ who has performed two task, washed and dried.

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