SENTENCE

in grammar

Introduction

The word ‘sentence’, in general sense, has these dictionary meanings: ‘the punishment given to a person by a court of law’, ‘to say officially in a court of law that a person is to get a particular punishment’, but in English grammar:

“A sentence is a group of words which has a subject (one or more) and a predicate (one or more), and gives complete sense.”

When we write a sentence, we must begin it with a Capital Letter and end it with either a full stop [.] or a question mark [?] or an exclamation mark [!] depending on the context.

For example,

Stop. [= You stop.]

He is a boy.

She goes to school and (she) studies very hard.

I returned home early because I was tired.

Do you like this book?

What a beautiful garden it is!

The six groups of words given above are six complete sentences.

A sentence must have a Subject part and a Predicate part: a subject part must have a noun or pronoun; a predicate part must have a main verb.

e.g.      Our children are playing in the park.

‘Our children’ — subject part – children – noun

‘are playing’ –    predicate part — are playing – main verb

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