Part 90 (1/2)

Peace will be

Poverty is

Fill the blanks in the following sentences with a phrase used in the predicate complement

His service was _for his class_

Socialise shall be

The government is

The opportunity is

VERB PHRASES

+413+ Note that in most of the sentences which we have used, we have used the simple form of the verb, the form that is used to express _past_ and _present_ ti other tiiven in section 145, which gives the different ti the verb phrase you will find that other wordsthe phrase When you analyze your sentence this will not confuse you You will easily be able to pick out the verb phrase For example:

I shall very soon find out the trouble

Here the adverbs, _very_ and _soon_, separate _find_ from its auxiliary _shall_ The verb phrase is, _shall find_ The negative _not_ very often separates the words foro

In this sentence, _will go_ is the verb phrase

When we use the auxiliary verb _do_ to express eative _not_, _not_ comes between the auxiliary verb _do_, and the principal verb For example:

I do not obey, I think

In this sentence, _do obey_ is the verb phrase

In interrogative sentences, the verb phrase is inverted and a part of the verb phrase is placed first and the subject after For exao with us?

_You_ is the subject of this interrogative sentence and _will go_ is the verb phrase; but in order to ask the question, the order is inverted and part of the verb phrase placed first In using interrogative adverbs in asking a question, the same inverted order is used For example:

When will this work be commenced?

In this sentence, _work_ is the subject of the sentence and _will be commenced_ is the verb phrase If you should write this in assertive form, it would be:

This ill be co close attention we can easily distinguish the verb phrases even when they are used in the inverted form or when they are separated by other parts of speech

LET US SUM UP

+415+ The elements of a sentence are the words, phrases or clauses of which it is cole statement, question or command+

+A simple sentence contains only words and phrases+ It does not contain dependent clauses The elements of a simple sentence are: