Part 87 (2/2)

+401+ You remember in our first lesson we found that there were just three kinds of sentences The _assertive_, the _interrogative_ and the _imperative_; or in other words, sentences which state a _fact_, ask a _question_ or give a _command_ We also found that these three kinds of sentences could all be expressed in _exclamatory_ form

THREE KINDS OF SENTENCES

+assertive+ Makes a stateative+ Asks a question

+Imperative+ Gives a command

+assertive sentence;+ _I reative sentence;+ _Do you not remember the day?_ +Imperative sentence;+ _Remember the day_

In Exclamatory Form

+assertive;+ _Nonsense! I reative;+ _What! Do you not remember the day?_ +Imperative;+ _Oh come! Remember the day_

analYSIS--SIMPLE SENTENCES

+402+ Now that we have finished the study of the various parts of speech, we are ready for sentence building and for sentence analysis

Sentence analysis is the breaking up of the sentence into its different parts in order to find out how and why it is thus put together To analyze anything is to break it up or separate it into its different parts We speak of analyzing a sentence e pick out the subject and the predicate and their modifiers, because we thus unloosen them or separate them from one another

These parts of the sentence are called the elements of the sentence The elements of a sentence consist of the words, phrases and clauses used in forin fro the various parts of speech as we have studied them

Let us take the simplest form of sentence which we can consider For example:

Men work

There are only three parts of speech which can be used to make a simple sentence in this manner, and these are, either the noun and the verb, or the pronoun and the verb We ht say instead of _Men work_, _They work_, and have a complete sentence

In the sentence _Men work_, _men_ is the subject and _work_ is the predicate The subject and the predicate are the two principal elements in a sentence No sentence can be formed without these two parts and these two parts can express a thought without the help of other ele modifiers

You remember we have found that a noun may be modified by an adjective

So we add the adjective _busy_, and we have:

Busy men work

Our simple subject is still the noun _men_, but the complete subject is the noun with its modifier, _busy men_ We may add other adjectives and say:

The busy, industrious men with families work

Here we have our simple subject _men_ modified by the adjectives, _the_, _busy_ and _industrious_, and also by the adjective phrase, _with families_ So the complete subject of the sentence now is, _the busy, industrious le verb _work_ Let us now enlarge the predicate We have found that adverbs are used to modify verbs, and so we may say: