Dissecting Basic
Sentences
To form
a basic complete sentence, you only need two elements: a noun (or pronoun
standing in for a noun) and a verb. The noun acts as a subject and the verb, by
telling what action the subject is taking, acts as the predicate.
- Birds fly.
In the
short sentence above, birds is
the noun and fly is
the verb. The sentence makes sense and gets the point across.
You can
have a sentence with just one word without breaking any sentence formation
rules. The short sentence below is complete because it's a command to an
understood "you".
- Go!
Here,
the pronoun, standing in for a noun, is implied and acts as the subject. The
sentence is really saying, "(You) go!"
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