What is a sentence?
A sentence is a group of words combination of subject, verb, and complements.
What is a sentence or statement that is an identical question? This drives us to the basic stage of English grammar. So, if we think deeply sentence means a statement or conversation. Every language has conversations. Without conversation or statements, we cannot talk to each other.
That’s why sentences play a very important role in a language.
In this article, we will study what a sentence is. And how to form it. Before that, we must know about sentences; it would be better to know about the alphabet and the words through which we form the sentences. They are necessary to know while making sentences.
What is Alphabet?
- Alphabets:
a b c d e f g h I j k l ………….. z is called the alphabet. With their help, we form words.
Like: ‘E n g L I s h’ - Word:
A Group of letters that gives a complete meaning is called a word.
Example: Book, Education, Learn, Play, Fan, Animals, Students.
What is a sentence?
Sentence: A group of words that has a subject and a predicate and gives a complete sense.
Examples:
- She has a doll.
- I am a student.
- This is an apple
A sentence has many parts that need to be understood before forming sentences.
Note: We call them parts of speech also.
What is the subject?
Subject: The doer of an action or something that is narrated in a sentence.
Examples:
- Sana plays a game.
- She is a student.
- We like our center.
- Ahmed helps me.
Object: The receiver of an action or state in a sentence.
Examples:
- He played football.
- They are eating cake.
- Ali gives me a book.
What is a verb?
Verb: A word that shows an action, state, possession, presence, or absence.
Examples:
- I drive a car.
- She likes
- They have
- There are some books on the table.
- John isn’t present today.
Helping Verb: when (is, are, am, was, were, been, do, does, did, have, has) are used before other verbs that are called helping verbs.
- Remember that when these helping verbs appear alone without any dynamic verbs are called main verbs.
Examples:
| Acting as M.V. (main verb) | Acting as M.V (main verb) |
| Sara is cooking food. | Sara is a student. |
Predicate: After the subject, the rest of the words in a sentence are called predicates.
Examples:
- Ali is reading storybooks.
- Karachi is a beautiful city.
- We are united.
EXERCISE:
- Underline the subjects and objects.
- We go to the center.
- She is singing a song.
- They are playing a game.
2. Underline H.V and M.V
- Ali is riding a bicycle.
- I am happy.
- We are intelligent students
3. Underline the Verbs
- She laughs loudly.
- I have a ring.
- We love our country.
