These notes include summaries on Sentences, clauses and phrases, types of sentences and how to identify them (simple, compound, complex) including examples.
Language Worksheet 4: Sentences
Sentences are made up of:
• Two main parts:
• Subject – who or what we are talking about
(person/thing performing the action)
• Predicate – the rest of the sentence (expands on the
subject and always begins with the verb), consists of the
verb and the object.
Example:
Subject Predicate
The boys were excited to go to school.
• Complement
A complement is a word or a group of words that completes the
meaning of a part of the sentence. It is essential to the meaning
of the part it complements; it is needed to express the meaning
the sentence intends to give:
• The type of complement depends on what it applies to:
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