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Presentation English Sentence Structure 1527848175 298188
Presentation English Sentence Structure 1527848175 298188
To begin, a question:
What’s the simplest sentence you can make in
English?
1. How to Build a Simple Sentence
What does every sentence in English need?
The simplest sentence is an imperative, which means when you tell someone to do
something.
For example:
• Run!
• Leave!
• Work!
These are the simplest complete sentences you can make in English; they’re just one
word long!
Of course, most sentences are longer than this.
Most sentences that are longer than one word also need a noun
before the verb. This noun is the subject.
With a subject plus a verb, you can make simple sentences like:
• He runs.
• She left.
• They’re working.
You can see that the verb can be in different forms: past or present,
simple or continuous. The verb form doesn’t change the structure of
the sentence. These are all the same: subject plus verb.
He runs slowly.
You can see that you have many choices, but your choices are
also limited. In this case, you can use different kinds of
adverbs, but there are also things you can’t use.
For example, you can’t use another verb after run, you can’t
use an adjective, and you can’t use a noun, or at least you
can’t use a noun with this meaning of run.