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Definition
Two immediate parts
Types of Sentence
a. According to function
b. According to structure
Basic sentence patterns in
English

What is a sentence?
A sentence is a thought or
a group of thoughts
interrelated in meaning.

Subject
a. what is being identified or
talked about
Example: Public relations is the art
of dealing with people.
b. what is being described
Example: Alay Lakad means
walking for a charitable purpose.

c. what undergoes an action


Example: The lesson in brotherhood
must be learned by all.
d. to or for whom the action is
performed.
Example: The visitors will be shown
the prints and slides of the recent
historical events in the country.

Predicate
what is said about the subject
Example:
The baby
Predicate

cried.
Subject

Simple vs Complete
Simple Subject and Simple Predicate
SS
SP
Example: The visitors will be shown the
prints and slides of the recent historical
events in the country.
Complete Subject and Complete Predicate
CS
CP
Example: The visitors will be shown the
prints and slides of the recent historical
events in the country.

Types of
Sentence
According to
Function

Declarative Sentence
It is a statement that states
something
It ends with a period.
Example: Ysa cooked pancit canton for
Marvin.

Interrogative Sentence
It is a sentence that asks a question.
It ends with a question mark.
Example: Who cooked the pancit
canton?

Imperative Sentence
It is a sentence that commands or
asks someone to do something.
Some would appear to have no
subject because of you is assumed
to be the subject.
It can be short as one word.

Example: Cook.
Please cook pancit canton.
Cook pancit canton.

Exclamatory Sentence
It is a sentence that shows
excitement or strong emotion.
It ends with an exclamation point.
Example: Such a delicious pancit
canton that Ysa cooked!
Oh! This pancit canton tastes
so good.

Type of
Sentence
According to
Structure

Simple sentence
It expresses a single independent
thought.
Example: Engineers are very much in
demand nowadays.

Compound Sentence
It expresses two or more co-ordinate
thoughts.
Its clauses may be separated with a
comma followed by a coordinating
conjunction, or a semi-colon followed
by a subordinating conjunctions.
Example: Engineers are very in demand ,
for they are badly needed abroad.

Complex Sentence
It expresses two or more thoughts,
one of which is the main independent
thought with one or more thoughts
being dependent on it.
Example: If you are an Engineer, why
not go abroad?

Compound-Complex
Sentence
It expresses two or more thoughts,
two of which being the main
independent thoughts and at least
one being dependent.
Example: While he is still thinking
about going abroad, his wife decided
that she would go with him and his
parents said that they would stay
with their children.

SS = 1 MT
CS = 2 = MT
CX = 1 MT + 1/more DT
CC = 2 MT + 1/more DT

Basic Sentence
Patterns

S-IV
S-LV-SC
S-TV-DO
S-TV-IO-DO
S-TV-DO-OC

S-IV
Subject+Predicate
(Noun/Pronoun+Verb)
Example:
Rye jumped.
S
IV

S-LV-SC
Subject+Predicate+Subjective Complement
(Noun/Pronoun+Linking Verb+Adj/Noun)

Example:
Jah is beautiful.
S LV
C
Jah is a doctor.
S LV
C

S-TV-DO
Subject+Predicate+Object
(Noun/Pronoun+Verb+Noun/Pronoun)
Examples:
Shi broke the vase.
S
TV
DO
Shi broke it.
S
TV DO

S-TV-IO-DO
Subject+Predicate+IndirectObject+DirectObject
(Noun/Pronoun+Verb+Noun/Pronoun+Noun)

Example:
Marvin gave Ysa a candy.
S
TV IO
DO

S-TV-DO-OC
Subject+Predicate+Object+Objective Complement
(Noun/Pronoun+Verb+Noun+Noun/Adj)

Example:
The parents named the child Abi.
S
TV
DO
OC

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