Simple Sentence

Mohamad Hafiz b Zainal Abidin

Muhamad Asyraf b Muhamad Ludin
NurShafiqah bt Ahmad
NurAzinie bt Abd.Halim
Nur Fashahah bt Mohamed Anawa
Syazwana Zakiah bt Ismail
Wan Nurul Aishah bt Wan Hamat
A simple sentence contains a single
subject and predicate. It describes
only one thing, idea or question, and
has only one verb - it contains only an
independent (main) clause.
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 Any independent clause can stand

alone as a sentence. It has a subject
and a verb and expresses a complete
thought.
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 For example:
 Jill reads.
 Suraya eats.
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 Even the addition of adjectives, adverbs, and
prepositional phrases to a simple sentence
does not change it into a complex sentence.


 For example:
 The brown dog with the red collar always
barks loudly.
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 Even if you join several nouns with a
conjunction, or several verbs with a
conjunction, it remains a simple sentence.
 For example:


 The dog barked and growled loudly.

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 English sentences are composed of a
topic and something said about that
topic, commonly referred to as the
subject and predicate.
   SENTENCE         =           SUBJECT         +          
PREDICATE


Johny hungry
 The subject and predicate are often described
as a topic and a comment, what is being
talked about (the subject) and what is being
said about it (the predicate).    Each of these
elements is characterized by a combination
of three elements or perspectives:
Ø a position or slot within a sentence
Ø a certain form or type of grammatical
construction
Ø a certain meaning
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 Thus the subject of a sentence typically
voccurs at the beginning of the sentence
(position),
vconsists of a noun phrase (form), and
vindicates the topic of the discussion (meaning).
 
 

 The predicate

vfollows the subject,

vstarts with a verb indicating an action or state
of being, and
vconveys a thought about the subject.
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 A subject and predicate, together, form a simple
sentence.    As used here, the term "simple" refers to
the basic structure of a sentence.    Simple sentences
can be short or long, and can express simple or
complex thoughts and may contain complex
constructions, but the basic structure of the sentence
is simple. Here are two simple sentences:
-  John ate spaghetti.

- The boy from Conosha with the funny earring in his left

ear devoured a dish of delicious Italian pasta a la

Milanese.
 These two sentences have the same structure:
    John

 ate
   spaghetti.

    The boy from Conoshawith the funny earring in his left

ear
devoured
 Both are simple sentences from a structural
point of view.    They both consist of    a
subject and a predicate indicating what the
subject did.    They are both composed of
two noun phrases and a verb.    They both
can be reduced with pronouns to
 He ate it.
qNote that length alone does not determine
structure, although it is often a factor.    We
are concerned with the complexity of
structure, not length.