Sentence Analysis

This is a reminder as I am fed up going over this!!!



Sentence = Subject (who or what the sentence is about) + Predicate (Verb and object)

There are three types of sentence to be aware of:

A simple sentence (one subject and verb) can also be called a main clause.

For example: The girl ran for the bus.

A Compound sentence is made up of more than one main clause joined together with conjunctions.

For example: The girl ran for the bus but she missed it so she was late for work.

A Complex sentence is made up of at least one main clause and one or more subordinate clause. (A subordinate clause is a phrase which when removed from the rest of the sentence makes no sense on its own. It relies onthe main clause.)

For example: Because it needed food for its cubs, the lion killed the zebra.

Here you can see that the first part of the sentence only makes sesnse when the second part is added.