Parts of a Sentence

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 :

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Subject	Predicate
He	goes
Rahul	played
They	laughed
She	wept
I	sleep
Dogs	bark

In the table every sentence has two parts

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 :

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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

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In above table every sentence has two parts- Subject and Predicate. Every subject has two parts Qualifiers and Had-word.

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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.

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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.

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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).


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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

In the above table Infinitive (to-V) has been used as a subject

Now study the table given below.

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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

Direct and Indirect Sentences

Indirect Banate Samay Pronouns me Kaise Change Kare

Present Indefinite Tense Hindi to English

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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.

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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.