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What is a sentence ?

A sentence is an arrangement of words that makes complete sence. It must be


meaningful. It must, at the same time, be acceptable to speekers of the language.
For example:

Najma is singing a song A table is made of wood

Structure of a sentence:
Every sentence has two parts, a Subject and a predicate.

Subject Predicate
1 Children Play.
2 We are playing cricket.
3 Rose is a beautiful flower.
4 Lahore is famous for hospitality

The subject:
A word (or word) donating the person, place or thing about whom or of which something
is said in a sentence is called the subject of the sentence.

A subject may consist of one word or more.


The predicate:
The predicate says something about the subject. It may consist of just a verb
or a verb plus other elements. The normal word order in English is: subject + predicate

Since there be no sentence without a verb, the smallest English sentence must have the structure.

subject + Verb
I + play

Object:
Object is a word on which some action is performed in a sentence.

Kinds of sentence:
Sentence are four kinds.

1. Statement
2. Interrogative
3. Imperative
4. Exclamatory
1: statement
Statements are sentence that give facts or describe events or things.
They may be affirmative (positive) or negative.

For example:
1) Clouds bring us rain. (Affirmative)
2) I have not seen her for a long time. (Negative)
3) She is a pretty girl. (Affirmative)
4) She is not a pretty girl. (Negative)

2 Interrogative:
The sentences in the form of question.

For example:

1: where can we get this book?

2: Did the president visited the town?

Sign of interrogation (?)


3: Imperative
The sentence of request, command, suggestions, etc. are called imperative
sentence.

For example:
Lend me your pen, please. (Request)
Get ready to fire. (Command)
Let us go out for a picnic. (Suggestion)

4: Exclamatory
These kinds of sentence express surprise, anger, regret, joy, etc. are
called exclamatory sentence.

1 What a surprise!
2 How stupid of you to say that!

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