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Title: Recognizing Subjects and Verbs


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Recognizing Subjects and Verbs
  • By Kevin Chen

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A simple sentence
  • The simplest form of a complete statement is
    called an independent clause or a simple
    sentence.
  • Every simple sentence must have two basic
    elements
  • The Subject
  • The Predicate

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The Subject
  • the thing one is talking about
  • usually a noun, a pronoun, or some other group of
    words used as a noun.

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The Predicate
  • what one says about
  • a verb is the essential part of the predicate.

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Ex. Birds fly. Dogs bark. Stones roll.
  • Birds, dogs and stones are the subjects.
  • Fly, bark and roll are the verbs, seen as the
    predicate.

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The first step
  • Finding subjects and verbs in a sentence is the
    first step to see if the sentence expresses a
    complete thought.

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  • Look first for the verb, the most important word
    in a sentence, and then for the subject.
  • Note
  • The ancient men knew what they need to do
    first, such as eat, hunt, run, and then they knew
    and named what to eat and hunt. So, remember the
    first thing is that you need to do something and
    then determine what something is.

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One sentence, one verb
  • In principle, there must be one subject and one
    verb in a sentence. (Without conjunction not an
    imperative sentence) If you see conjunctions in
    the independent clause, there would be more than
    one verb. Or if there are dependent clauses, the
    verbs in the dependent clauses are not the
    so-called main verbs of the sentence.

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Example Test
  • Read the short passage below and find the main
    verb of each sentence (the verb of independent
    clause).
  • Please post your answers on the discussion board
    of our course in EngSite.

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  • The Beatles were without any question the
    most popular, most influential of all rock
    groups. Their influence expressed itself first of
    all in the simple sociological dimensions of
    their success, unmatched in pop-music history.
    But the band also managed almost singlehandedly
    to transform the innocent entertainment of
    rock-and-roll into the artistically self
    conscious pretensions of rock.

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  • As the Beatles began to define their
    generation, it became apparent that John Lennon
    and Paul McCartney were the creative forces
    behind the band. Ringo Starr was cute and cuddly
    and George Harrison played eloquent lead guitar,
    but it was Mr. Lennon and Mr. McCartney who
    composed most of the band's songs and were the
    lead singers. They worked together in a
    classically complementary manner. Mr. McCartney
    was the sunny, bright one, the purveyor of
    lilting ballads and cheery love songs. Mr. Lennon
    was the harder, fiercer man, the true rocker of
    the foursome, with the deepest, most convoluted
    sense of rock's anger and potential triumph.

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  • The Beatles By John Rockwell
  • http//topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopic
    s/organizations/b/beatles_the/index.html
  • END
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