| The three main parts of a sentence are the
subject, verb and object.
There are three main parts to a sentence.
These three parts are called the subject, the verb,
and the object.
In a sentence, the subject is the person of thing that does the
verb.
The verb tells you what action happens.
The object is the person or thing that the verb is done to.
A short sentence may have only a subject and a verb.
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Subject |
Verb |
| |
Albert |
wakes up. |
| |
They |
are eating. |
| |
The tide |
was rising. |
| |
The fog |
lifted. |
These sentences are very short, but they are real sentences.
They have a subject and a verb, and so they make sense.
(To practise very short sentences, go to level one.)
Most sentences are longer. They have a subject, a verb and an object.
The object comes after the verb. It tells you what or who the verb
was done to, or how the verb was done.
| |
Subject |
Verb |
Object |
| |
Albert |
waves to |
the ship. |
| |
They |
are eating |
breakfast. |
| |
Albert |
sniffed |
the tobacco. |
| |
Albert |
knows |
the tides and the traffic. |
| |
Albert |
checks |
the time. |
It may tell you how, or where, the verb happened.
| |
Subject |
Verb |
Object |
| |
The tide |
is flooding |
into London. |
| |
The fog |
has lifted |
off the river. |
Any words that describe the object are part of the object.
| |
Subject |
Verb |
Object |
| |
The tide |
was rising |
up the muddy beach. |
| |
The tide |
is flooding |
swiftly into London. |
| |
Albert |
waves to |
the little ship. |
| |
Albert |
sniffed |
the scent of tobacco that wafted out of
the warehouse. |
| |
Albert |
checks |
the wind direction on the dials at the
Naval College. |
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