Parts of Speech

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SentenceA sentence is a string of words that

carry meaning. It starts with a capital letter and ends

with a full stop.Examples:

A dog is chasing a cat.My father works at the hospital.

The following are not sentences: When I met her Probably, it. A group of fruits eat their grass through

cane midnight. Doctor will together pain rub stomach.

Parts of Speech

Is a traditional term to describe the different types of words that form a sentence.i.e. noun, pronoun, verb,

adjective, adverb, preposition, interjection, determiner.

These parts of speech usually occupy certain places in a sentence.

For example, the subject of a sentence is usually a noun or a noun phrase.

However, sometimes it is not that easy as a class of word can function as another, e.g. gerunds are verbs that function as nouns.

Grammatical Function

Santoso is a wonderful son. By function:

Santoso subject is verb a wonderful son subject complement

(it explains the subject)

By parts of speech (grammatical category): Santoso proper noun is verb (auxiliary verb) a determiner wonderful adjective son noun

If we know the parts of speech we can construct any sentence that is grammatically correct. Mary works at the factory.

S V Adv

My cousin lives next door.

I went to Africa last year. The book that I read belongs to the library.

Basic Sentence Patterns

There are 7 basic sentence patterns: SV Hillary yawned SVO Hillary opened the door SVC Hillary is ready SVA Hillary lives in London SVOO Hillary gave me a pen SVOC Hillary got a shoe wet SVOA Hillary put the box on the

table

Clause or Phrase?

A clause has a verb in it, whereas a phrase doesn’t.

Every week she goes shopping. She went to the city with her friends. The building at the corner of the

street is our campus.

The underlined are phrases.