Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Parts of the sentence
- Subject
- Simple Subject
- The subject
names who or
what the
sentence is
about. Some
subjects are
simple,
identifying only
one noun or
pronoun.
- Example: Fish swin.
- Complete Subject
- A complete subject
is the simple
subject,the main
word or words in a
subject, along with
any of the
modifiers that
describe the
subject.
- Example: The fish swin.
- Compound Subject
- Compound
subjects contain
two or more
simple subjects
joined with a
coordinating
conjunction
such as and or
or
- Example: The fish and
turtles swim.
- Predicate
- Simple Predicate
- The predicate
is the verb in
the sentence
that makes a
statement
about the
subject.
- Example: Mary works
- Complete Predicate
- A complete
predicate is
the verb or
predicate and
the words
associated
with it.
- Example: John
rode his bicycle
downtown
yesterday.
- Compound Predicate
- If one subject in
the sentence
has more than
one predicate, it
is called a
compound
predicate.
- Example: John
rode his bicycle
yesterday and
crashed it into
an oak tree.
- The Objects
- Direct Object
- The direct object
is a noun or
pronoun that
answers the
question "what or
whom?" after an
action verb, and
often receives the
action of the verb.
- Example: John
ate the cake. (It
answers the
question, "John
ate what?")
- Indirect Object
- An indirect object
is a noun or
pronoun that tells
to whom, for
whom, to what, or
for what
something is done.
Most often, the
indirect object is
placed before the
direct object.
- Example: Jay sent his
mother flowers.
It answers the
question, "Jay
sent flowers to
whom?"
- The Complements
- Subject Complement
- The subject complement
completes the meaning
of the subject by
renaming it or modifying
it after a linking verb.
- Example: Ellen is a lifeguard.
- Lifeguard
renames Ellen
and completes
the meaning of
the subject by
telling us that
Ellen and the
lifeguard are
the same
person.
- Object Complement
- An object
complement is a
noun, a pronoun,
or an adjective
that follows a
direct object to
rename it or state
what it has
become.
- Example: I found the guard sleeping.