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Object and its attributes

April 2nd, 2011 in Improve English

If the verb in the predicate is transitive, it must have an object to complete its meaning. Consider the sentence, ‘I bought a pen’. The words I bought by themselves do not make complete sense. But the sentence ‘I bought a pen’ expresses a complete thought. Here ‘a pen’ is the object of the verb bought.

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The Subject

November 28th, 2009 in English Grammar, English Learning, ESL, Improve English

An English sentence must have at least one subject and one predicate. The subject denotes the person or thing about which something is said.
The subject is usually the first noun or noun phrase in a sentence and it represents the thing that the rest of the sentence is about. The subject may consist of one word or several words but it must still have a noun or pronoun it. The main word in the subject is called the subject-word.

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