Subject, Verb, Object and Modifier
1.
Subjects
The subject of a sentence is a noun, a person, place, thing, idea, or
feeling. The subject often, but not always, comes at the beginning of the
sentence. The subject can be more than one noun.
2.
Verbs
Verbs are action words. Every sentence has at least one verb. There can
be more than one.
3.
Objects
A
sentence can have more than one noun. While a subject performs an action,
an object is a noun that has action performed on it. The object usually
comes after the verb.
4.
Modifiers
Another very common sentence element is
modifiers. Modifiers use adjectives or adverbs to describe, define,
limit, or modify nouns or verbs. A modifier can be a single word or a
phrase.
Example of Subject, Verb, Object and Modifiers :
a)
I ate dinner in
the dark.
b)
Dave almost
wrote a letter to his mother.
c)
The fat trumpet
player played slow jazz.
d)
I drank coffee
with my boyfriend
e)
She left her
scraft at Bekasi Station
Subject – Verb Agreement
Subject verb agreement refers to the fact that
the subject and verb in a sentence must agree in number. In other words, they
both must be singular or they both must be plural. You can’t have a singular
subject with a plural verb or vice versa. The tricky part is in knowing the
singular and plural forms of subjects and verbs. Example:
a)
My sister or my brother is
meeting you at the airport.
b)
Neither Carla nor Jeff is
available to meet you at the airport.
c)
She and her family are at Disney
World.
d)
His teammates or the athlete
sprints every day.
e)
The birthday boy, along with his
friends, is anxious for the party to stop.
f) Mary doesn’t
care for pizza.
g)
Neither knows how the competition
will end.
h) There
are many paths to success.
i)
Basketballs roll across
the floor.
j)
I don’t understand the
assignment.
Pronoun
A pronoun is
a word that is used instead of a noun or noun phrase. Pronouns refer to either
a noun that has already been mentioned or to a noun that does not need to be
named specifically.
The most
common pronouns are the personal
pronouns, which refer to the person or people speaking or
writing (first person), the person or people being spoken to (second
person), or other people or things (third person). Example:
a)
We are going on
vacation.
b)
Don’t tell me that you can’t go with us.
c)
Anybody who says it won’t be fun has no
clue what they are
talking about.
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