1. THE SENTENCE AND THE VERB.
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Rankin, Jean Sherwood
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SENTENCES (Grammar) ,VERBS ,DEFINITIONS ,COMPARATIVE grammar education ,PARTS of speech ,ASPECT (Grammar) ,GRAMMAR ,CONDITIONALS (Logic) - Abstract
The article presents information on the definition of the sentence and the verb. Various definitions offer the sentence as an expression of complete thought. A complete sentence should have one subject with its predicate verb and it should be grammatically correct. The article states that every sentence should have three parts including subject, predicate and copula. The article offers definitions of the subject of the sentence, the predicate and the copula and all definitions show expression of thought. The logical aspect of the term predicate has been offered in the article. According to professor William Fowler, every grammatical sentence must imply a corresponding logical preposition. The verb and the preposition are words of relation and related to each other. The article suggests that the comprehensive course in grammar should be pure and simple.
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- 1909
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