Remember that the subject of a sentence is what the sentence is about. It usually, though not always, performs the action of the verb. A verb is a word that expresses an action or occurrence. The key rule is the subject and verb in a sentence have to agree in number. There are a ...
Subject + verb + object I eat apple. The students read a book. They read a book. You clean the room. Ahmad eats an apple . The cat catches the mouse He eats an apple . It moves it’s tail. Amal reads a book She reads a book THE TENSES PRESENT I cook the lunch. PAST I cooke...
Subject and Predicate Quiz What part of speech is the subject? What part of speech is the simple predicate? What does a subject of a sentence do? What does the predicate do? Name the subject and the simple predicate in this sentence: Mr. Morton lived happily ever after. What was the ch...
“Running very fast” is a phrase, but “The football player was running very fast” is a sentence. A sentence has a subject and a verb.In algebra, we have expressions and equations. An expression is like a phrase. Here are some examples of expressions and how they relate to word ...
A clause is a group of words including a subject performing the action of a verb. An independent clause is a clause that could stand alone as a sentence. An independent clause expresses a complete thought. A dependent clause is a clause that could not stand alone as a sentence. A ...
A delay in processing sentences with -ne was created by the ambiguity of an empty subject identified by -ne as either 'I' or 'you'. In Experiment 2, the auxiliary verb -ou 'let us' was added to the base sentence before -yo and -ne, providing a cue to identify the empty subject ...
I bought a fishing book. (writing is a present participle modifying book) Uses of Gerunds in English Sentences As mentioned above, gerunds may function as a subject, direct object, indirect object, or object of a preposition: Use of Gerunds in a SentenceExample Subject Swimming is my hobby....
Is the verb in thecorrect form and tense? Does itagree with the subject? #2: Pronouns Does the pronounagree with the noun it's replacing? Is it in thecorrect case? #3: Gerunds (-ing verbs) Is the gerund replacing a main verb andcreating a sentence fragment?
subject vs. predicate By elementary school, kids begin learning about the different parts of a sentence. These parts give each word a job. And every complete sentence needs two things: a subject and a predicate. But what exactly are they?
摘要: How is the (in)-dependence (or finiteness) of a clause identified in a language that has no tense, case, or agreement morphology, such as Chinese? This paper investigates the control verb...关键词: Dependent clause Finiteness Subject Complemented pronoun Derived predicate The Generalized ...