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Structure of Sentences

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Pr

Circle the subject and underline the predicate.

1. Akshat studies in class 8.
2. The teacher and the principal met with the parents.
3. The baby cried for food.
4. Where do you live?

5. Homework makes me happy.

Let’s Learn Structure of Sentences

A sentence is the basic unit of a language that expresses a complete thought.

The way in which the words are put together in a sentence is called the sentence structure.
The basic structure of a sentence is: Subject + Verb + Object (or Complement). There are two
parts of a sentence.

Subject Predicate
O O
A complete sentence has at least a subject and a main verb to state (declare) a complete
thought. For example:

Anil walks.
O
Here, in this sentence, the verb walks conveys a complete meaning. It conveys the action
that the subject is doing in the sentence.
In English, the first word of a written sentence begins with a capital letter. At the end of the
sentence, there is a full stop or a questions mark or an exclamation mark.

Subject

The subject of a sentence is the person, place or thing that a sentence is about. It is always a
noun or a pronoun. For example:
Father is calling me.
O
In a long sentence, identify the verb and ask who or what before it. For example:

Last night, the rain came pouring down the hill slopes.
O
In the above sentence, came is the verb and the rain is the subject.

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