Sentence Elements

Sentence Elements

1. What is a sentence?

   • A sentence is a set of words that is complete in itself , tipically containing a subject and a predicate, conveying a stament, question, exclamation , or command, and consisting of a main clause and sometimes one or more subordinate clauses
     • What is the subject and the predicate?
       • The subject: Is the actor in a sentence and It's about we are talking.
         • There are different kinds of Subject and some of thems are:
           • The Complete Subject
             • INcludes all the words that tell who the subject is or what is about.
           • Simple Subject
             • The simple subject is usually a noun or pronoun.
           • Compound Subject
             • A compound subject has two or more simple subjects that share a verb, and they are joined by a conjuction such as "and", "or", or "nor".
       • The predicate of a sentence is what we say about the subject and this includes all the words that tell what the subject is or does
         • There are different kinds of predicates and they are:
           • Complete Predicate
             • It is all the words that telll what the subject is or does
           • Simple Predicate
             • Is the most important word or words in the complete predicate. It is a verb or a verb phrase.
               • the action word in a sentence is called "Verb".Together, the subject and the verb form the core of the sentence
                 • Verb
                   • Is the action that the subject develop and there are different kinds of verbs.
                     • Linking or copulative
                       • conects a sentence's subject with a noun or an adjective in the predicate
                     • Transitive
                       • verbs that that take Direct Objects
                     • Intransitive
                       • verds that can't or don't take Direct Object