THE SENTENCES AND ITS PARTS

HOW TO UNDERSTAND ENGLISH GRAMMAR.

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HOW TO UNDERSTAND ENGLISH GRAMMAR

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1 - THE SENTENCES AND ITS PARTS

The sentence and its parts are the basic vocabulary of grammar, and it is important that you take some time to learn and understand them. The parts of the sentence are a set of terms for describing how people construct sentences from smaller pieces.

THE SENTENCE

Look at the following sentences:

1. You are already late for the office.

2. I am going to play.

These sentences make complete sense.

A GROUP OF WORDS THAT MAKES COMPLETE SENSE IS CALLED A SENTENCE.

A sentence begins with a capital letter.

-The words in a sentence must be in their proper order.

-A sentence has two main parts: the subject and the predicate.

-The subject refers to the person or thing that does the action.

-The predicate refers to the verb together with the rest of the sentence.

-A sentence usually ends with a full stop.

Now, Can you make sentences with the words given?

Ash reads,    Monkey jump,     Sun shines

THE PHRASE

Some groups of words make sense but not complete sense. For example,

'fine work',   'good man',   'last evening',  
'of no use',   'a sad story',  'at the bus stop'

A group of words that makes sense but not complete sense is called a phrase.

-Phrase do not have capital letters and punctuation marks.

-Phrase do not have a verb.

-A phrase can become a sentence if we add some words to it. One word that we must add is a verb.

We can convert a phrase into sentence by adding some words and a verb. For example,

1. My brother told me a horror story last night.
2. I will wait for you at the bus stop.

PARTS OF SENTENCE
Read this sentence.

The man is in the office.

This is the subject.      This is the predicate.

-The name of the person, place, animal or thing that we speak about is the subject.

-What is said about the subject is the predicate.

In commands like Stand up or Go away the subject you is understood but not spoken. So Stand up means, You stand up.

A sentence can be long or short, it must have a subject and a verb.

A sentence can have just two words. e.g. Birds (subject) fly (verb).

However, a command or an order does not have a subject. This is because the word 'You' is left out in a command Here the subject you is understood.

1. Get out means You get out.
2. Come here means You come here.

Let's do your Practice and go to next class :- 

Class - 2 > KINDS OF SENTENCES

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