This document explains what a sentence is, describing it as a syntactic unit that expresses a complete thought. It categorizes sentences into three types: simple, complex, and compound, providing examples of each. Additionally, it discusses sentence construction and the parts of speech involved in forming sentences.

1. Sentence Structure

2. What is a sentence?
• A sentence is a syntactic unit which has a complete
thought in the form of
• statement, question, instruction, or exclamation. Thus, a
sentence can stand alone without a context or text. A
sentence normally consists of a subject and a verb. It can
be simple, complex, or c ompund .

3. Examples:
• He swims regularly.
• She reads a book at night.
• The cat was chasing a mouse through the brick walls.
• Because wind is invisible, it is hard to see a tornado
unless it forms a condensation funnel made up of water
droplets, dust and debris.

4. Types of Sentence
1. Simple sentence
• A simple sentence consists of one independent clause.
EXAMPLES:
• Betty works as an engineer at the company. )
• I'm happy.
• She exercises every morning.
• His dog barks loudly.
• We always eat dinner together.

5. 2. Complex sentence
• A complex sentence consists of one independent clause
that is followed or preceded by a dependent clause
EXAMPLE;
• When it rains, the road is very slippery./Although she is
smart, she isn’t arrogant.
• While I am a passionate basketball fan, I prefer football.
• Although she was considered smart, she failed all her
exams.
• Whenever it rains, I like to wear my blue coat.

6. 3. Compound sentence
• A compound sentence consists of two independent
clauses that are joined by conjunctions such as and, but,
or
EXAMPLE;
• I like Bakso but I don’t like the meatballs.
• He plays soccer, but she prefers swimming.
• They study hard, so they get good grades.
• We work during the day, and we relax in the evening.
• She loves her job, yet she complains about it a lot.

7. Sentence construction
• To form a sentence in English, an essential element is the
subject and the verb (and object), depending on the verb
(S- V - O). The number of subject (including object) and
contexts (tense & aspect) of sentence determine the form
or shape of the verb.
Examples:
• 1. Sally l ikes watching Korean Dramas.
• 2. The dog is chasing the cat/The d ogs are chasing the
cat.

8. Parts of Speech & Syntactic elements
• Noun (car )
• Verb ( have )
• Adjective ( fast )
• Adverb ( )
• Preposition ( in, at, on, )
• Subject (nouns)
• Predicate (verbs)
• Object (nouns)
• Complement (object,

9. Exercises!!!
Direction: Rearrange the words in correct order to
make complete sentences.
1. That thin girl is drinking milk now
2. the robbers yesterday / the police / caught
3. our teacher / like /we
4. my mother / my baby sister / is looking after
5. has just written / a letter / the tall man
6. the students / have solved / some Mathematics problems
7. her aunt tomorrow / will visit / Mary