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PRINCIPAL MEMBERS OF THE SENTENCE
THE SUBJECT The subject is the principal part of a two-member sentence which is grammatically independent of the other parts of the sentence and of which the second principal part (the predicate) is grammatically dependent, i.e. in most cases it agrees with the subject in number and person. The subject can be expressed by: 1. a noun · a noun in the common case, e.g. The sea is calm tonight. Anna sings beautifully. · a noun in the possessive case, e.g. Anna’s was the best voice of all. · a noun group, Paul and Vera are my best friends. The blue of the sky showed that it was morning already. 2. a substantivized adjective, e.g. The old and the young must be helped by the society. 3. a numeral, e.g. · Thirteen is my favourite number. (cardinal numeral) · The third was our bus. (ordinal numeral) 4. a pronoun · a personal pronoun, e.g. She is my sister. We were really happy. · a possessive pronoun in its absolute form, e.g. Theirs was a happy marriage. · an indefinite pronoun, e.g. Anyone can do it, it’s easy. One can’t be always in a good mood. · a demonstrative pronoun, e.g. That was not true. · a negative pronoun, e.g. No one knew the truth. · an interrogative pronoun, e.g. Who has been sitting on my chair and has broken it? · a detaching pronoun, e.g. The other is better. · a universal pronoun, e.g. All is well that ends well. 5. an infinitive or an infinitive phrase, e.g. To live is to love. To forgive that was impossible. 6. a gerund or a gerundial phrase, e.g. Seeing is believing. Sleeping all the time is wasting your life. 7. dummy subjects ‘it’ and ‘there’, e.g. It is never late to learn. There is many a slip between the cup and the lip. 8. a quotation, e.g. ‘Daddy’ is one of Danielle Steel’s romantic novels. 9. a subject clause, e.g. What is done cannot be undone. TASK 7. Define the subject in the sentences below.
THE PREDICATE PREDICATE SIMPLE COMPOUND verbal nominal verbal nominal modal aspect Simple verbal predicates Predicates of this kind denote one action and may be expressed by: 1. synthetical forms of the verb (notional verbs with or without endings), e.g. · Mary cooks dinner every evening. · Mary cooked dinner yesterday. 2. analytical form of the verb (an auxiliary verb + a notional verb), e.g. · Mary is cooking dinner tonight. (is – an auxiliary verb; cooking is a notional verb) · Mary has been going out with Jake since April. (has been –auxiliary verbs; going out is a notional verb) · Yesterday she was invited to go out by Nick. (was – an auxiliary verb; invited – a notional verb) 3. phrasal verbs (e.g. to get up; to cut off; put on; to take off, etc.= a verb + post position), e.g. · She is going out tonight. · Jim never takes off his shoes when he comes home. 4. set expressions denoting short actions (e.g. to have a swim; to give a laugh, to make a move, etc.), e.g. · At the sight of the dog Sofia got frightened and gave a cry. · The expert took a look at the picture and said that it was a fake. 5. phraseological set expressions (to lose sight of, to take care of, to make fun of, to take part in, etc), e.g. · Bertha changed her mind about the trip to Liverpool. · Look through your papers and get rid of all you don’t need.
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