1. WHAT IS SENTENCE
Definition
Sentence is a word or group of words that expresses complete thought.
It begins with capital letter and ends with terminal mark.
Examples
He is my brother.
2. What is your name?
Be quite.
Hurray! We have won the match.
3. THERE ARE FOUR TYPES OF SENTENCES:
SIMPLE SENTENCES
COMPOUND SENTENCES
COMPLEX SENTENCES
COMPOUND COMPLEX SENTENCES
4. Simple sentence has one independent
clause consisting of subject and predicate.
Ind Clause
VP
Sub V Det Ob
She ate an apple.
Sub predicate
5. A compound sentence consists of at least two independent
clauses joined by coordinating conjunctions.
sub VP VP
conj NP
V Com
Det sub V Det com
I like an apple but my brother likes a mango.
Ind Clause Coor Conj Ind Clause
6. A complex sentence consists of one independent
clause and al least one dependent clause joined
by subordinating conjunction.
I met the boy who had helped me.
Main Clause Subordinate Clause
7. A complex compound sentence consists of at least two
independents and one or more dependent clauses.
He went to college and I went to a market where I bought a book
Main Clause conj Main Clause Subordinate Clause
8. Subject Predicate
Ali play cricket
There are two main parts of a sentence.
Predicate consists of verb and other words.
Subject is the doer of the action
Subject & Predicate
9. Subject Predicate
Ali
A dog
Students of his
class
are making noise.
is barking in the
street.
is my brother.
10. Simple Subject Compound subject
Simple sub consists of
single noun or a pronoun
The earth revolves round the sun.
We work togather.
Waheed and Javed are fast
friends
Does the trainer or teacher go
along?
Compound sub consists of
two or more than two simple
subject.
Gold is an expensive
metal.
Ali and Zafar are running
fast.
11. SIMPLE
PREDICATE
Ali tried his best and made
the team.
I will go there but will not stay
so long.
Simple predicate is always
a verb or verb phrase
Children play cricket.
We read the newspaper
COMPOUND
PREDICATE
Two or more simple
predicate make a
compound predicate
12. Definition:
1. The person or thing that receives the action
of the subject is called the object of the
verb.
2. An object is a part of the verb on which
some action has been done.
Example:
He writes a letter.
I gave him a book.
They killed a snake.
My mother baked a pan cake.
13. There are two kinds of object.
Direct Indirect
Direct object is receiver of the
action.
Indirect object identifies for whom
or what the action of very is
performed
I gave her a pen.He hit the ball.
He killed a snake. Ali helped his brother.
14. Complement is required to complete grammatical
construction or predicate.
She looks beautiful.
Water is everywhere.
She was happy.
Ahmad is a teacher.
Usman has become a lawyer.