A sentence is a group of words which starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop (.), question mark (?) or exclamation mark (!). A sentence contains or implies a predicate and a subject.
- Sentences contain clauses.
- Simple sentences have one clause.There are more things you can add to enrich your sentence.
Parts of a sentence Description
Adjective Describes things or people.
Adverb Alters the meaning of the verb slightly
Article a, an – indefinite articles
the – definite articles
Conjunction Joins words or sentences together
Interjection A short word showing emotion or feeling
Noun Names things
Preposition Relates one thing to another
Pronoun used instead of a noun to avoid repetition
Proper noun (subject) The actual names of people or places etc.
Verb Action or doing word2.1.4 PARTS OF A SENTENCE
Mr. Peha’s Stunningly Simple Sentence Structure System states that: (1) Sentences are made of parts. (2) Those can parts have names. (3) We can describe the structure of a sentence by describing the number and types of parts it contains, and the order in which those parts occur.ILLUSTRATION: “On a bitter cold winter morning, Malcolm Maxwell, a young man of simple means but good intentions, left the quiet country town in which he’d been raised, and set off on the bold errand he’d been preparing for all his life.”
You can see that it is made up of several different parts. There are four kinds of sentence parts to watch for:
• Main Parts. These parts usually contain the main action of the sentence: “Malcolm Maxwell,… left the quiet country town in which he’d been raised,….”
• Lead-In Parts. These parts lead into other parts, often main parts: “On a bitter cold winter morning,…”
• In-Between Parts. As the name implies, these parts go in between other parts. They feel like a slight interruption: “…a young man of simple means but good intentions,…”
• Add-On Parts. These are extra parts that convey additional information about any of the other parts and are usually used to make things more specific: “…and set off on the bold errand he’d been preparing for all his life.”
We could describe the structure of this sentence like this:Part 1 On a bitter cold winter morning, Lead-In
Part 2 Malcolm Maxwell, Main
Part 3 a young man of simple means but good intentions, In-Between
Part 4 left the quiet country town in which he’d been raised, Main
Part 5 and set off on the bold errand he’d been preparing for all his life. Add-On - Compound sentences and complex sentences have two or more clauses.
- Sentences can contain subjects and objects.
The subject in a sentence is generally the person or thing carrying out an action. The object in a sentence is involved in an action but does not carry it out, the object comes after the verb.
For example:
The boy climbed a tree.
