What are the parts of a sentence
Hello friends, in this post I am going to tell you about the parts of the sentence. l'll do my best attempt to make understand you. Please read this post attentively.
There are two parts of a sentence
1. Subject
2. Predicate
Please study the sentences in the table given below :
Subject | Predicate |
---|---|
He | goes |
Rahul | played |
They | laughed |
She | wept |
I | sleep |
Dogs | bark |
1. Subject
The doer of the action
2. Predicate
Predicate is the part of a sentence which says something about the subject. It always contains a verb.
1. DIVISION OF THE SUBJECT
Please look at the table given below :
Subject | Predicate | |
---|---|---|
Qualifiers | Head-words | |
A | boy | jumped |
An | elephant | swims |
The | earth | moves |
My | brother | studied |
Some | students | failed |
Few | girls | weep |
That | dog | bites |
In above table every sentence has two parts- Subject and Predicate. Every subject has two parts Qualifiers and Had-word.
Subject | Predicate | ||
---|---|---|---|
Qualifiers | Head-word | Verb | |
Determiner | Adjective | Noun | |
A | fat | boy | jumped |
The | lazy | fox | died |
Some | pretty | flowers | faded |
His | younger | sister | wept |
Those | good | boys | studied |
The | black | dog | barks |
A | beautiful | girl | smiles |
Look at the above table carefully. Subject has two parts Qualifier and Head-word. The head-word of every sentence is noun. Determiner and Adjective are the qualifiers of Head-word (Nouns). Remember Adjective is always placed between determiner and noun.
Now study one more table to understand subject's parts.
Subject | Predicate | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Determiner | Adjective | Noun | Adjectival Phrase | |
A | green | bird | sitting in the tree | flew away |
His | younger | sister | in Mumbai | is a famous actress |
A | beautiful | girl | of nine | was selling baskets |
The | fat | boy | running on the road | is my brother |
An | old | man | with a stick | slipped |
See above table Determiner, Adjective, Head-word and Adjectival Phrase are the parts of Subject. Determiners and Adjectives are placed before Head-word and Adjectival phrases are placed after Head-words.
Study the next table given below to understand subject in the form of Gerund.
Subject | Predicate |
---|---|
Gerund (V+ing) | |
Walking | is good for health |
Smoking | is harmful |
Saving | pays |
Waiting | tires me |
Swimming | is easy to learn |
In the above sentences Subject has only one part that is called Head-word and takes ing form of the verb. Thus we come to know that the Head-word may be Noun, Pronoun or V-ing form (Gerund).
Subject | Predicate |
---|---|
Infinitive (to + V) | |
To work | is to worship |
To pay the taxes | is our duty |
To save money | is good for future |
To work hard | should be our motto |
to err | is human |
Now study the table given below.
Subject | Predicate |
---|---|
It | is very hot today |
It | was winter |
It | is raining |
It | grew dark |
It | was six in the morning |
There | was a king |
There | are fourty students in our class |
There | is no difficulty |
There | lived a rich man in my village |
In the above table the subject of every sentence is It or there. Word It is used as a pronoun also and word there is used as a adverb also but there is not used them as a pronoun or as an adverb. There is a different use. Word It can be called Natural It and word there can be called Introductory There.
DIVISION OF THE PREDICATE
In above passages you have read Subject has different parts like Determiner, Adjective, Noun, Adjective Phrase etc. The same way Predicate also has its different parts like Verb, Object, Compliment etc.
Study given below table to understand division of predicate.
Also Read
Subject | Predicate | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Verb | Object | Compliment | ||
Indirect | Direct | |||
Raju | gives | her | a white pen | ------ |
The mother | told | us | a story | ------ |
The teacher | teaches | us | english | in the morning |
Your brother | had given | me | a book | yesterday |
Now study the table given below.
Subject | Predicate | ||
---|---|---|---|
Verb | Object (Direct) | Object (Indirect) | |
Ravi | gave | a pen | to me |
My father | sent | a letter | to him |
The teacher | teaches | english | to us |
He | promised | all help | to my brother |
In above table we see that Indirect Object is put after Direct Object in that case we have to use 'to' before Indirect Object.