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Parts of the Sentence

1. Subject and Predicate

   • Subject is the person or thing doing the action. ex: Jhon is bad person
   • Predicates tell us what the subject does, or is and always includes a verb. ex: What about Jhon? is a "good friend". "good friend is a predicate

2. Simple Subject and Simple Predicate.

   • Simple Subject tell us what the simple subject does, is doing, do, has done or will do. ex: the boy walks to the school."
   • Simple Predicate is "who or what" the sentence is about. ex: "The hungry fox darted across the yard." (The and hungry are modifiers for the simple subject fox.)

3. Unusual Sentences

   • Gives a command or an order, that differs from conventional sentences in that their subject, which always "you"
     • ex: Please tidy your room.

4. Objects

   • Indirect Objects
     • An indirect object answers the question "to whom?", "for whom?", "for what?"
       • They sent him a postcard - him is the indirect object of the verb sent. (To whom did they send a postcard?)
   • Direct Objects
     • A direct object answers the question "what?" or "whom?"
       • David repaired his car → his car is the direct object of the verb repaired. ( What did David repair?)

5. Transitive and Intransitive Verbs

   • A verb can be classified as transitive or intransitive according to whether it takes or doesn't take an object:
     • If a verb takes objects, then it is a TRANSITIVE VERB Example: They played soccer. → (The verb play takes ONE object 'soccer')
     • If a verb doesn't take an object, then it is an INTRANSITIVE VERB. Example: She lies. → (The verb 'lie' doesn't take any object)

6. Subject Complements

   • A subject complement is a word or phrase which follows a linking verb, and describes or identifies the subject
     • He will be fine. (The linking verb is will be (i.e., the verb to be). The subject complement describes the subject He. It is an adjective.)
   • Objects Complements
     • An object complement is a noun, a pronoun, or an adjective which follows a direct object to rename it or state what it has become.
       • I found the guard sleeping.