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• Sentence..?
• Parts of Sentence..?
• Subject and predicate..?
• Pattern of Sentences..?
• Kinds of Sentences..?
• Types of Sentences..?
 Sentence
• A set of words that is complete in itself,
typically containing a subject and predicate,
conveying a statement, question, exclamation,
or command, and consisting of a main clause
and sometimes one or more clauses.
 Parts of Sentence..?

Sentence

Subject Predicate
 Subject
 A subject is something or someone that does
something:

 Ahmad studied the lesson.

 The girl is eating an apple.
 The cat chased the rat.
 Predicate
• The predicate is the part of the sentence other
than the subject. It must contain a verb.
SUBJECT PREDICATE
A thief stole the car.
His brother is a teacher.
The rain has been falling steadily.
Ahmed will be coming soon.
The train left five minutes ago.
 Pattern of Sentences..?
• "Sentence patterns" is just another way a
sentence is put together; the order of the
elements in the sentence; sentence
construction.
 Terminologies
• S SUBJECT
• V VERB
• O OBJECT
• OD DIRECT OBJECT
• OI INDIRECT OBJECT
• C COMPLIMENT
• CO OBJECTIVE COMPLIMENT
• LV LINKING VERB
 SUBJECT-VERB (S V)
• This is the simplest kind of sentence.
• It consist of a subject and a verb.
• There are no direct objects, indirect objects, or
complements.
Ali slept. She ate.
 SUBJECT-VERB-OBJECT (S V O)
 Made of a subject and a verb and a object.

Ahmad ate an apple.

S V O
 SUBJECT-VERB-OBJECTI -OBJECTD (S V OI Od )
• When the verb takes two objects, the first
object is called the indirect object (Oi) and
the second the direct object (Od).
• My uncle sent me a letter.
 SUBJECT-VERB-COMPLEMENT (S-LV-C)
 It is composed of a subject, linking verb and
complement.

The manager seems efficient.

S LV C
SUBJECT-VERB-OBJECT- OBJECT COMPLEMENT
(SVOCO )
• Consists of a subject, a verb, direct object and
objective complement.
• A complement after the object describes or
renames it.
• They painted the house blue.
S V O CO
 Kinds of Sentences
• Simple Sentences
• Compound Sentences
• Complex Sentences
• Compound-Complex sentence
 Simple Sentences
• Also called an INDEPENDENT CLAUSE.
• Contains a SUBJECT, PREDICATE, VERB and
EXPRESSES a COMPLETE THOUGHT.
• Juan and Anthony play football every afternoon.
 Compound Sentences
• Contains two independent clauses (simple
sentences) joined by a coordinating
conjunction.
• I tried to speak Spanish, and my friend tried to
speak English.
 Complex Sentences
- Has an independent clause joined by a dependent
clause/subordinate clause. Dependent clauses do not express
a complete thought and can’t stand alone as sentences. A
dependent clause begins with a subordinating conjunction,
such as because, since, after, although, when, etc.
• When I saw her I remembered her sister.
 Compound-Complex Sentence
• Contains 2 independent clauses & 1
dependent clause.
• Put a comma after the dependent clause.
• Charlie could not hear his watch because it
had stopped, and he was worried.
 Types of Sentences
There are 5 types of sentences.
• Declarative
• Exclamatory
• Interrogative
• Imperative
• Negative
 Declarative
• A declarative sentence is a sentence that
makes a statement.
• Ex. John is a student.
 Exclamatory
• An exclamatory sentence is a sentence that is
said with strong feeling or emotions. (always
ends with an exclamation mark)!
• Ex. What a shame!
 Interrogative
• An interrogative sentence is a sentence that
ask a question and always end with a question
mark.
• Ex. What is your name?
 Imperative
• An imperative sentence is a sentence that has
a command.
• Ex: Go to your room.
 Negative
• A negative sentence (or statement) states that
something is not true or incorrect.
• we create negative sentences by adding the
word 'not' after the helping verb.
• There is a “negation” element in this type of
sentence.
• Ex. It is not raining.