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Grammar

1. Sentence Sense

To think more clearly and write more effectively, understand how sentence work.

The parts of a sentence The English sentence divides into two parts. 

Subject + predicate.

The voters + elected the incumbent

The peach + tastes good.

The tomato + is ripe.

The subject of a sentence is what the sentence is about or says something about. It is part of the sentence that answer the question "Who?" or "What?" The predicate of a sentence say something about the subject. It contains a word that expresses action, occurrence, or state of being. In the sentence above, elected expresses the action the voters took, tastes expresses an occurrence (what happens when the peach is eaten), and is expresses the state of being of the tomato. The pattern of these sentence is subject + predicate, the basic order of English sentences. A subject and a predicate together make a clause.

Learn to recognize verbs and predicates.

A verb function as the predicate of a sentence or as an essential part of the predicate. You can recognize a verb by observing its form as well as its function. 

     Giovanni swims. [verb by itself]

     Giovanni swims a mile before breakfast. [verb plus modifiers]

Predicates may be compound:

     

     Giovanni swims a mile before breakfast and arrives at the office by eight.

A verb may consist of more than one word. These words may include two kinds of elements, those that precede the main verb and those that follow it. The auxiliary, a helping verb, precedes the verb. The verbs have and be are auxiliaries and follow the pattern of AUXILIARY + VERB. Since they precede the verb, auxiliaries are often called verb markers. Modals also precede the verb.

     The fight had started by then.

     He will be studying late.

     Mara should go now.

Other words may intervene between the auxiliary and the verbs:

Have the members paid their dues? [Compare "The members have paid their dues."]

I have not paid mine.

Television will never completely replace the radio.

Verbs with particles Verbs with particles, sometimes called phrasal verbs, function grammatically just like single-word verbs and verbs with auxiliaries. Following the verb, the particle (a word such as across, away, down, for, in, off, out, up, or with) combines with it to create a meaning different from that of the verb as single word. For example, the meaning of the verb turned, even when the modifier out occurs nearby, is different from the meaning of the combination turned out.