What is a sentence?
A sentence is a clause expresssing a complete thought .
Remember the following points:
- Inside a sentence there is always a SUBJECT and a PREDICATE.
- The subject is the person or thing doing the action or being in the sentence
while the predicate is the actual action or statement word.
- A PHRASE (a group of words either senseless or meaningful)
can be added to
a sentence without altering the pattern of SUBJECT and PREDICATE.
- Likewise, a CLAUSE (a unit that contains a subject and predicate itself)
can be added to a sentence.
- Both a clause and a phrase are MODIFIERS in a basic sentences.
|
| SUBJECT |
PREDICATE |
| The dogs |
bark |
| The black dogs |
bark loudly |
| The dogs on the street |
bark all night |
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