Sentence Structure

Question 1

What is a sentence??

Answer 1

A sentence ma be defined as a string of words which begin with a capital letter and ends with a punctuation mark; an exclamation mark or full stop

Question 2

Sentences are me up of

Answer 2

Subject, verb and object ( predicate)

Question 3

Name sentence types

Answer 3

Simple sentence
Compound sentence
Complex sentence
Compound complex sentence

Question 4

What’re simple sentence

Answer 4

A simple sentence consisting of only one clause, with a single subject and predicate

Question 5

What’re compound sentence

Answer 5

Usually contains two independent clauses that are joined by coordinating conjunction.

Question 6

What’re complex sentence

Answer 6

They are sentences that contain an independent clause plus one more dependent clause.

Question 7

What’re Compound complex

Answer 7

These are sentences that contain 3 or more clauses of which at least 2 are independent and 1 is dependent.

Question 8

Sentence paterns

Answer 8

1. Subject + verb (VS)
2. Subject+ verb + object (SVO)
3. Subject+ verb + compliment (SVC): The compliment gives more information about either the subject or object
4. Subject + verb + object + compliment ( SVOC)
5. Subject + verb + indirect object + direct object.