Sentences
Sentences are made of two parts: the
subject and the predicate.
The subject is the person or thing that
acts or is described in the sentence. The predicate, on the other hand, is that
action or description.
Complete sentences need both the subject
and the predicate.
Clauses
Sentences can be broken down into
clauses. For example:
The boy is going to the school, and he is
going to eat there.
This is a complete sentence composed of
two clauses. There are mainly two types of clauses:
independent clauses and
subordinate clauses.
Independent clauses act as complete
sentences, while subordinate clauses cannot stand alone and need another clause
to complete their meaning. For example:
Independent clause: “The boy went to the
school.”
Subordinate clause: “After the boy went
to the school…”
Phrases
A group of two or more grammatically
linked words that do not
have subject and predicate is a phrase. For example:
The girl is at home, and tomorrow she is
going to the amusement park.
You can see that “the amusement park” is
a phrase located in the second clause of the complete sentence above.
Phrases act like parts of speech inside
clauses. That is, they can act as nouns, adjectives, adverbs and so on.
_From English Grammar 101_
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