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A. Noun - A Person, Place or Thing

This document discusses basic sentence structures in English. It defines a sentence as a group of words that express a complete thought. It then outlines the main parts of speech used to form sentences, including nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. It provides examples of subjects and objects, explaining that the subject performs the action of the sentence while the object receives the action. Compound subjects and phrases can also serve as subjects. Direct and indirect objects are described based on their relationship to the subject.

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A. Noun - A Person, Place or Thing

This document discusses basic sentence structures in English. It defines a sentence as a group of words that express a complete thought. It then outlines the main parts of speech used to form sentences, including nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. It provides examples of subjects and objects, explaining that the subject performs the action of the sentence while the object receives the action. Compound subjects and phrases can also serve as subjects. Direct and indirect objects are described based on their relationship to the subject.

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Basic Sentence Structures in the English Language

 A sentence is a group of words that are put together to make one complete
thought.
 To understand sentence structures in the English language, you must first have a
general understanding of the types of words that are used to make sentences.
a. Noun – a person, place or thing
 Singular examples (one): brother, home, sock, mouse
 Plural examples (more than one): brothers, homes, socks, mice
b. Verb – an action
 Examples: jump, sit, talk, have
c. Adjective – describes a noun
 Examples: colourful shirt, funny story, tall boy
d. Adverb – describes other words (not nouns)
 Examples: jumped yesterday, talks fast, sings loud, very pretty, luckily for us
e. Subject – the noun or nouns that perform the action
 Example: The dog jumped.
 The subject of this sentence is the noun, dog, because it is performing the
action of jumping.
 Example: Dogs and cats sleep.
 The subjects of this sentence are the nouns, dogs and cats. This is called a
compound subject because there is more than one subject performing the same
action.
 Example: People who practice a lot get higher scores.
 The subject of this sentence is “people who practice a lot” – it is made of several
words – known as subject phrase / predicate.
f. Object – the noun or nouns that receive the action
 Example: The child drank milk.
 The object of this sentence is the noun, milk, because the child is drinking the
milk. The milk is receiving the action.
 Example: She is eating bread and cheese.
 The objects of this sentence are the nouns, bread and cheese. The subject is
eating them both.
 There are two types of object;
 Direct object: object with which the subject has a direct connection
 Indirect object: object with a weaker connection to the subject.
 Example: I bought some flowers for my mother.
 Flowers is the direct object whereas my mother is the indirect object.
The indirect object has a preposition before it if we want to use it at the
end of the sentence.
 Example: I bought my mother some flowers.
 Direct object & indirect different order. When direct object comes last,
we don’t need to use preposition.

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