Sentence Structure

 A sentence is something built from words and phrases according to some system.�It is not simply some words randomly thrown in together.

A sentence is a system:

so, the important questions are...

What are the different parts of a sentence and what jobs do these sentence parts do?

• How do these parts inter-relate so that a grammatically correct sentence is created?
• How the various parts of a sentence interplay to form a sentence

What are the Different Sentence Parts?

Subject

Predicate

Finite verb (Transitive, Intransitive, or Linking)

Object(Direct or Indirect)

Complement(Subjective or Objective)  

 Adverbial( Adjunct or Complement)

Subject and Predicate

        A sentence is made up of two parts:

The Subject—tells us which person, animal, place or thing we are talking about;

The Predicate—tells us what we are saying about that subject.

     Have a look at these sentences...

      Ahmad ate those mangoes.

      Cricket is played in Pakistan

      His sister is a teacher in Islamabad.

The bold-faced part is the subject and the remaining part is the predicate in each of the three sentences above.