Primary and secondary parts of the speech

PRIMARY AND SECONDARY PARTS OF THE SPEECH

by Rajabova Shahnoz,11-2TNA-20

PLAN:

• 1. Sentence and basic elements of every sentence;
• 2. The main sentence parts;
• 3. The secondary sentence parts.

Sentences

• Sentence: a group of words that contains a subject and its predicate, makes a complete thought. To say anything clearly, we must say two things: what we are talking about (subject) and what we are saying about it (predicate).
• Each thought must have these two parts:
• 1. Subject – what we are talking about.
• 2. Predicate – what we are saying about it.

Basic elements of every sentence

The subject and the predicate have a unique standing in the system of sentence parts. They form the backbone of the sentence. They are interdependent and independent of any other sentence member while all other members can be dependent either on the subject or on the predicate. The subject and the predicate can form a sentence on their own.

THE SUBJECT

• The subject is one of the two main parts of the sentence. It denotes the thing whose action or characteristic is expressed by the predicate. It may be expressed by different parts of speech, the most frequent ones being : a noun in the common case, a personal pronoun in the nominative case, a demonstrative pronoun, a substantivized adjective, a numeral, an infinitive and a gerund. It may also be expressed by a phrase.
• The subject is what the sentence is about, while the predicate tells something about the subject.
• Ex: Judy {runs} or Judy and her dog {run on the beach every morning}.
• To determine the subject of a sentence, first isolate the verb and then make a question by placing “who” or “what” before it– the answer is the subject.
• Ex: The audience littered the theatre floor with torn wrappings and spilled popcorn.