In grammar, a sentence is the basic grammatical unit. It contains a group of words and expresses a complete thought.
A sentence consists of a subject and a predicate. For example in the sentence "Bill writes good poems" Bill is the subject of the sentence and writes good poems is the predicate.
Simple sentences contain one clause:
- The girl is learning how to drive
Complex sentences contain more than one clause.
- The girl who is learning how to drive is still twelve years old.
- She faced the whole trouble with courage and managed to solve the problem all by herself.
There are four types of sentences:
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Parts of speech
Subject
Verb
Predicate
Direct and indirect objects
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