Parts of Sentences
A sentence is a group of words that contains a subject and predicate and expresses a complete thought. A sentence has two basic parts, a subject (S) and a predicate (P). The predicate includes the verb (V), direct object (DO), indirect object (IO), predicate noun (PN), predicate adjective (PA), and object complement (OC].
Most English sentences follow one of these six patterns:
Speed kills. [S] [P [V]]
Birds eat berries. [S] [P [V] [DO]]
Dad wrote me a letter. [S] [P [V] [IO] [DO]]
She is a firefighter. [S] [P [V] [PN]]
The soldier is brave. [S] [P [V] [PA]]
The movie made us sad. [S] [P [V] [DO] [OC]]
