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English Grammar,The Phrase and The Clause.
1. THE PHRASE AND CLAUSE

Let us see this sentence. ‘He came to my house’.

The group of words ‘my house’ gives us meaning. But, it does not give us the complete meaning. This group of words when joined with other words – ‘He came to’ – gives wholesome meaning’.

A group of words that gives meaning but not complete meaning is called ‘PHRASE’. Example: Twenty Twenty Cricket is a great form of entertainment. Here, great form of entertainment is the ‘Phrase’.

I am unable to understand the difficult subject of Maths. – Here, difficult subject of Maths is the ‘Phrase’.

I can get a chain of gold. Here, the sentence means, ‘I can get a chain which is made of gold’. ‘A chain of gold’ sounds like a phrase.

There is a difference. That is, when you expand the sentence – it reads ‘I can get a chain which is made of gold’. To explain further, let us break the sentence like this ‘I can get a chain.

It is made of gold. When we join these two sentences, it becomes – I can get a chain and it is made of gold. To take it further, it becomes, ‘I can get a chain of gold’. The last sentence is crisp and conveys thought force fully. (The meaning as explained earlier is ‘ I can get a chain which is made of gold)

The underlined words constitute ‘CLAUSE’. It has a Subject (which) and Predicate (chain of gold).

A group of words which is a part of a sentence and contains a subject and predicate is called a ‘CLAUSE’.

PHRASE CLAUSE

1. Part of a sentence. 1. Part of a sentence.

2.Conveys partial meaning of the Sentence 2. Conveys partial meaning of The Sentence

3.Contains No Subject and Predicate . 3.Contains Subject and Predicate

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23 Jul 2012
Subject and Predicate.
We normally speak of something. When we say ‘SUN’, we speak of the star that gives us light; when we say cricket, we mean a particular game. So, whenever we make a sentence, we speak about something or somebody. What we speak about is called a ’SUBJECT’.

Fine, I want to speak about India. Now I say ‘India’ – Does this give any complete meaning? No. It remains a word. To make a sentence, I            have to say something about ‘India’ – only then it will give complete meaning. If I say, ‘India is a democratic country’ – we understand. Therefore, to make the sentence completely understood or comprehensible, we have to say something about the ‘subject’. i.e. India (we speak about something) – is the subject; is a democratic country (we say this about India – predicate). Now, the sentence gives you the            complete meaning.

India (subject) is a democratic country (predicate). What we    say about India, i.e. ‘is a democratic country’, is called  Predicate.

The word Predicate means ‘saying something about something.

Hence, in a sentence, WHAT WE SPEAK ABOUT IS CALLED THE ‘SUBJECT’

And

‘WHAT WE SPEAK ABOUT THE SUBJECT IS CALLED ‘THE PREDICATE’.

Example:

ALL MATTER IS INDESTRUCTIBLE –

ALL MATTER – SUBJECT    IS INDESTRUCTIBLE – PREDICATE

I SAW A SAW TO SAW A SAW   –

I SAW   –   SUBJECT      A SAW TO SAW A SAW   – PREDICATE

STILL WATERS RUN DEEP

STILL WATERS – SUBJECT        RUN DEEP – PREDICATE
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22 Jul 2012
English Grammar 2,The Sentence
1. Linguistics is tedious (Photo credit: Drew Tolson)
  
  1. THE SENTENCE
DEFINITION             We use words to denote or point out objects.

We also use words to express our feelings and thoughts.

When we want to do any of these things, we use a word to point out an object or a particular feeling or thought i.e. Mountain, Table, Hunger, Anger.

These words indicate a particular object or feeling or thought.

But, when we want to speak or write about more than one object, more than one idea, we use groups of words.

When we use a group of words, we can express our feelings or thoughts.

But, mere group of words alone will not convey complete meaning.

So, we have to use group of words to convey complete meaning.

This is called ‘SENTENCE’.

For ex; ‘SUN RISES IN THE EAST’.

Here we have complete meaning.

Therefore, ‘A Group of words which makes complete sense is called a sentence’.

Example:   Two plus two equals four.

Sachin Tednulkar is a master batsman.

India is a great country.’

VARIOUS KINDS OF SENTENCES

We can always state a fact or that which has happened,

SENTENCE that states  which happened ,happens or which will happen. We can also state some general truths.

Example:

My name is Anand) (fact).

Earth is in the Solar System (fact and truth).

Those that are born, shall die (truth).

These types of statements, when we express a fact or a Universal truth, we make Assertive statements.

An Assertive statement is a statement when we make an assertion or statement.

We cannot live on making only assertive statements.

Supposing, I want to go to Bangalore,

How can we express this?

By an Assertive statement?

If we say, ‘I want to go to Bangalore’, your friend will either keep quiet or laugh, because, he would not know what you want. Therefore, we need to ask questions as well, when we need something.

If we are hungry, we go to a hotel and we ask the bearer ‘what is available; then he tells us as what is available.

A statement that contains a question is called an ‘INTERROGATIVE SENTENCE’.

Example:         What is your father?

Where do you work?

What do you like to eat?

How are you?

Why are you unhappy?

Where is your brother?

IMPERATIVE           These two kinds of sentences are not enough. Suppose you

SENTENCES             want to request somebody or command order somebody, then, we use different kinds of sentences. .

Be quiet                       –           command

May I come in ?          –           Request

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A sentence that contains a request or command is called an ‘Imperative sentence’.

EXCLAMATORY SENTENCE. Sometimes, you have strong feelings. Say, somebody steps on your feet in a bus, what do you do?

Do you say, ‘you have stepped on my feet?

No, you say ‘Oh…. Ouch’ Similarly, when you watch a Cricket match, a batsman hits a huge six, what do you say? ‘Wow!, What a shot/six.

A sentence that expresses a strong feeling is called an ‘EXCLAMATORY SENTENCE’’.

Therefore, there are four kinds of sentences.

ASSERTIVE sentence is one that makes a statement of fact/truth.

INTERROGATIVE sentence is one that asks a question.

IMPERATIVE sentence is one that contains a request or command.

EXCLAMATORY sentence is one that expresses strong feelings.

Related articles
- English Grammar, An Introduction (ramanan50.wordpress.com)
- Difference Between “Shall” and “Will” in English Grammar (differencebetween.net)
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21 Jul 2012