The Sentence

Writing EnglishPreparation

Ali Abdullah al shehan

:Supervision

Abdul Aziz al-Sanusi

*What is a sentence ?

A sentence is a group of words that contains a subject and a verb and expresses a complete thought .A sentence begins with a capital letter and ends with a period examples : **He is a student .*It is hot today .

*He looks tired.

-----<sentence>-----

predicateSubject

verb

English speak You

: Look at this simple example

Sentence Types

*Simple * Compound

*Complex *Compound-Complex

Basic Elements of Every Sentence

SUBJECT PREDICATE

Basic Elements

SUBJEC PREDICATE

ahmad plays tennis

. A simple sentence has one subject and one predicate.

Simple Sentence

Simple Sentence

Observe how a simple sentence is :constructed

We went to San Juan yesterday.

*Explain why the (NS) word groups are not sentences :

is very hot todey ( There is no subject ) NS 12 S it is very hot todey,3 NS My new classmate from Brazil ( no verbs) 4 S He spaks three languages fluently 5 Ns Is very handsome ( No verbs )

Simple Sentence

Pronoun

Verb Prepositional phrase

We went to Mecca.

Complete predicateSimple subject

What is a subject ? The subject talls who or what did

something . It is a noun or pronoun

My roommate lost his keys .( who lost his keys ? … my roommate)

The taxi hit the child.What hit the child ? … the taxi) )

Soccer and tennis. (What are my favorite sports ? … soccer and tennis)

What is a verb ? The verb usually talls an action Sometimes a verb

doesn’t tell an action Sometimes it just links the subject with the rest of the sentence .

Action verb . Name an action as hit , live , lose , speak,

go ,and come . The taxi hit the child. *

My family lives in a two-bedroom apartment* .

My roommate lost his keys.

Linking verbs : link the subject with the rest of the sentencs . Linking verbs do

Not have objects . The most common linking verbs are be , become , look , feel , seem , smell , sound , and taste .

Soccer and tennis are my favorite sports . …… . L feel lucky today

Linking verbs

The above example sentence is very short. Of course, a sentence can be longer and more complicated, but basically there is always a subject and a predicate. Look at this longer example

-----<sentence>----- predicate

Subjectverb

English when they are working

speak Ram and Tara

Note that the predicate always contains a verb. Sometimes, in fact, the predicate is only a verb:

So we can say that a sentence must contain at least a subject and verb

-----<sentence>----- predicate

Subjectverb

rises Smoke

Appreviation Note also that a sentence begins with

a capital letter and ends with a full stop* or a question mark or an

exclamation mark. Look at these examples:

People need food .

How are you ?

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