Sentence Structure

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Sentence in English
What is sentence?

A set of words that is complete in itself, typically containing a subject

and predicate, conveying a statement, question, exclamation, or
command, and consisting of a main clause and sometimes one or
more subordinate clauses.
Basic Sentence

 A basic sentence pattern in English consists of One

SUBJECT and One PREDICATE.

 Example:
 Sun shines
o Sun is as SUBJECT of the sentence
o Shines is as PREDICATE of the sentence
 Sentence Types
There are some sentence types in English.

COMPOUND
SIMPLE COMPOUND COMPLEX
- COMPLEX

Complex Sentence Compound Complex

Simple Sentence Compound Sentence
Sentence
A complex sentence
A compound sentence It has more than one
A simple sentence has has at least two parts:
has more than one part can stand alone,
one subject and one one that can stand
part that can stand and at least one that
predicate alone and another one
alone. cannot.
that cannot.
Simple Sentence
Observe this sentence
Pronoun Verb Prepositional phrase

We went to Kuta beach.

Simple subject Complete predicate

SS with compound subject and predicate

Example:

Tom and Marry play Tennis = Compound subject

Marry plays Tennis and swims = Compound predicate

Tom and Marry play Tennis and swim = Compound subject and predicate
A Compound Sentence
A compound sentence has more than one part that can stand alone.
(Independent Clause)
Independent clauses are connected by:
Coordinating conjunctions Conjunctive adverb

 For  Moreover
 And  However
 Nor  Otherwise
 But  Therefore
 Or
 Yet
 So
 COMPOUND SENTENCE:
COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS

Tom swims and Mary plays tennis

Clause 1 Clause 2
Independent Independent
 COMPOUND SENTENCE:
CONJUNCTIVE ADVERBS

Bob is handsome moreover he is rich

Clause 1 Clause 2
Independent Independent
 A Complex Sentence
A complex sentence has at least two parts: one that can stand alone and
another one that cannot

The part that cannot stand alone is linked to the rest of the sentence by a
subordinating conjunction

Subordinating After, although, as, because, before, how, if, once,

conjunction since, than, that, though, until, when, where, whether,
while.
 Complex Sentence

Since we wanted to have fun,

Subordinating Part that cannot stand alone

Conjunction

Subject Predicate

we went to Kuta beach yesterday.

Compound-Complex Sentence
• This type of sentence has more than one
part that can stand alone, and at least one
that cannot.

• Conjunctions link the different parts of

this sentence.
 Compound-Complex Sentence
Subordinating
Conjunction

Since we wanted to have fun,

Part that cannot stand alone

my classmate and I went to Kuta Beach,

Coordinating Subject Predicate

Conjunction

and we danced all night.

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