BY OGBOR STEPHEN

 As part of the evidence of our meeting today,

the students should be able to do the
following:
 Explain what is meant by components here
 State the components of a simple sentence
 Structure a given sentence into these
identifiable components.
 Constructs sentences that reflect the various
elements
 By sentence components we mean the
different units of a sentence that work
together to make a sentence meaningful.
 Components refer to parts or elements of
something, and in this case it is the part of a
simple sentence.
 It should be remembered that a sentence is
simple when it has only one clause expressing
just one idea.
 Subject – this is the main part of a sentence that
the remaining parts revolve around.
 It is the part that does the action in the
sentence.
EXAMPLE: David killed the snake last night.
The snake was killed by David.
 A subject can be functional or just logical. A
functional subject does the action in the
sentence, while a logical subject only occupies
the subject slot in a sentence. “David” in the first
sentence is functional while “the snake” in the
second sentence is only logical.
 Verb is the only compulsory element in a
sentence. It is an action word.
 It can appear in a sentence transitively or
intransitively
 It can change forms to indicate tense and
number concords
EXAMPLE: Our teacher travelled last month.
“travelled” is in the past just to show the action
was done in a past time.
 A complement is the part of a sentence that
gives further information about the subject or
the object of the sentence.
 In other words, it modifies the subject or the
object of the sentence.
 It is a subject complement when it modifies a
subject, and an object complement when it
modifies an object.
 EXAMPLE: The man in the picture is my
uncle.
 An object is any item in the sentence that the
verb acts upon.
 It is the receiver of an action in a sentence.
 An object can be direct or indirect. An indirect
object enjoys the action, while the direct
object suffers the action of the subject.
 EXAMPLE: The man bought his wife a car.
 An indirect object always comes first when
the two object types are present in a
sentence.
 An adjunct is an item of the sentence that
qualifies the verb of the sentence.
 It tells more about the action by giving
further information as to place, reason,
manner, frequency, degree, or time of the
action in the sentence.
 EXAMPLE: The stubborn student was flogged
this morning.
 “this morning” tells us the time the flogging
took place.
 It should be noted that the five
elements/components are not necessarily to be
present at the same time before a sentence can
be said to be correct.
 Only a verb as an element is compulsory in a
sentence.
 We can even have a sentence with just one word
and that one word must be a verb.
 The first slot of every sentence is exclusively
reserved for the subject. However, once in a wile
another element can occupy the position.
 Construct a sentence to reflect each of the
following elements combination.
 SV
 SVC
 SVO
 V
 SVOC
 SVA
 VA
 THANKS AND GOD BLESS