- •Introduction
- •The sentence
- •The Structural Types of Sentence Sentence
- •Part I The Simple Sentence
- •X. 3. Point out two-member sentences (say whether they are complete or elliptical) and one-member sentences.
- •The Subject
- •The predicate
- •Types of Predicate
- •Verbal Nominal Verbal Nominal
- •The compound predicate
- •The compound nominal predicate
- •The compound verbal predicate
- •The Object
- •The Attribute
- •Apposition
- •The Adverbial modifier
- •Detached (loose) parts of the sentence
- •The Independent elements of the sentence
- •Sentences with homogeneous parts
- •Inverted word order of words
- •Position of the object
- •Part III the composite sentence
- •The scheme of the above compound-complex sentence
- •The compound sentence күрделі сөйлем
- •The complex sentence құрмалас сөйлем
The compound predicate
The compound predicate consists of two parts: (a) a finite verb and (b) some other part of speech: a noun, a pronoun, an adjective, a verbal (a participle, a gerund, an infinitive), etc.
The compound predicate may be nominal or verbal.
The compound nominal predicate
The compound nominal predicate denotes the state or quality of the person or thing expressed by the subject (e.g. He is tired. The book is interesting.), or the class of persons or things to which this person or thing belongs (e.g. She is a student.).
The compound nominal predicate consists of a link verb and a predicative (the latter is also called the nominal part of the predicate).
The link verb expresses the verbal categories of person, number, tense, aspect, mood, sometimes voice. All link verbs, as the result of a long development, have partly lost their original concrete meaning. One link verb has lost its concrete meaning altogether: this is the verb to be.
The Compound Nominal Predicate |
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link verb |
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to be, to feel, to sound, to smell, to taste, to look, to appear, to seem |
I felt better pleased than ever. His voice sounded cold |
to become, to grow, to turn, to get, to make |
He grew more cheerful. The girl will make a good teacher. |
to remain, to continue, to keep, to stay |
She remained vexed with him. They kept suspiciously silent. |
4) some other verbs to lie, to sit, to die, to marry, to return, to leave, to come, to stand, to fall, to go, to shine |
The girl lay senseless. One evening she came home elated. |
predicative (ways of expressing) |
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1) noun (in the common case and possessive case) |
She is a pretty child. The book is my sister’s. |
2) adjective |
Her eyes grew angry. |
3) pronoun (personal, reflexive, defining, indefinite, negative, possessive, interrogative) |
It was he. She is somebody. What is he? She was herself again, brushing her tears away. |
4) stative |
I was wide awake by this time. |
5) numeral (cardinal or ordinal) |
He was the first to break the silence. I’m only 46. |
6) prepositional phrase |
She is on our side. |
7)infinitive, infinitive phrase, or infinitive construction |
His first thought was to run away. My idea is to go there myself. The only thing to do is for you to whip him. |
8) gerund, gerundial phrase, or gerundial construction |
My hobby is dancing. The main problem was his being away. |
9) participle II (or participial I) |
He was surprised. That sounded quite distressing. |
10) adverb |
It was enough the way she said it. |
11) indivisible group of words |
It is nine o’clock already. |
Objective Predicative |
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He appointed Bush secretary in his stead. Lord and Lady Masham left him alone with them. He carried me safe to my little nurse. They painted the green. |
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