Tham khảo tài liệu 'textbooks write english correctly_02', ngoại ngữ, kỹ năng viết tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | lesson 1 - The Parts of Speech ABSOLUTE EXPRESSION -32- lesson 2 - The Structure of the Sentence lesson 2 The Structure of the Sentence 1 The Sentence 2 The Clauses and Phrases 3 Types of Sentences Classified by Structure ABSOLUTE EXPRESSION -33- lesson 2 - The Structure of the Sentence THE SENTENCE I. THE SENTENCE A sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete thought. Every simple sentence must have two basic elements 1 the thing we are talking about called the subject 2 and what we say about it called the predicate In other words the subject of a sentence tells whom or what the sentence is about and the predicate of a sentence tells what the subject is or does. A. The Subject of a Sentence The subject of a sentence is expressed by a noun a pronoun or a noun equivalent. My elder daughter is now in the US. She is now working for her master s degree in mass media communications. Mastering languages takes hard work and patience. After work is convenient for everybody. What you are saying is not true. A Subject may be simple or compound I love her. He and I lover her. My father and my mother are nearly 60. Before work or after work is OK. Loving somebody and marrying him or her are two different things. What you say and what you do must go together. B. The Predicate of a Sentence 1. Verb a. Intransitive Verb vi A predicate is sometimes a single word which is an intransitive verb. Birds fly. Flowers bloom. .
