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What is Subject and Predicate? Sentences and clauses have two parts – “Subject” and “Predicate”. The subject of a clause or sentence is a noun or a pronoun. Sometimes a phrase or clause or any other grammatical element also function as a subject of a sentence. When a phrase or clause function as a the […]
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Definition of a sentence To understand sentence structure, it’s important that you know what is a sentence. A sentence in grammar is a set of semantically arranged words and conveys a complete thought. It is the basic grammatical unit. It essentially contains a subject and a predicate. The subject is a noun, pronoun, or a
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What are Simple Compound and Complex Sentences? In English language, sentences have been categorized to different types. One such category is “Types of sentences based on structure.” There are four types of sentence structures. The three commonly used types of sentence structures are: simple, compound and complex sentences. What is a Simple sentence? A Simple sentence is a sentence consisting
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What is a compound-complex sentence? There are four main sentence structures in English language. Compound-complex sentence is one of them. It is made of two independent clauses, also called main clause, and one or more dependent clauses, also known as subordinate clauses. In other words, a compound-complex sentence is like a combination of a compound
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What is a Compound Sentence? There are four types of sentence structures. Namely, Simple sentence, Compound sentence, Complex sentence, and Compound-complex sentence. Compound sentence is one of these sentence structures. We know that a simple sentence has only one independent clause. A compound sentence consists of at least two independent, closely related clauses. It does
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What is a Complex Sentence? In English language the sentences are classified into several categories depending on their function, structure etc. There are mainly four types of sentence structures. Each sentence structure uses a specific combination of independent clauses, also called main clauses, and dependent clauses also called subordinate clauses. A complex sentence is one
