Question 2. Analyse the sentences below and... a) identify the type of the sentence. b) identify the purpose of the sentence. c)
identify the components of the sentence. d) identify the phrases in the sentence. Sentences i) ii) iii) The person standing at the gate is my bother. My uncle's son can sing very well. The door.
The three sentences are simple sentences, formed by an independent phrase.
<h3>Purpose of sentences</h3>
The first sentence wants to inform the narrator's relationship with another individual.
The second sentence wants to expose a characteristic of someone that the narrator knows.
The third sentence wants to name an object.
<h3>Sentence components</h3>
First sentence: "The person standing at the gate" is the subject of the sentence, "is" is the verb of the sentence, and "my bother" is the indirect object.
Second sentence: "My uncle's son" is the subject, "can sing" is a verb phrase, and "very well" is the direct object.
Third sentence: "The" is an article and "door" is the noun.
<h3>Important pieces of information</h3>
Simple sentences are those formed by a single independent phrase, which does not need complements to have complete meaning.
The subject of the sentence is the person who is suffering or promoting the action provoked by the verb of the sentence.
The verb is the word that represents an action like "can," "be," "sing," "think," "reflect," etc.
An object is a word that complements the action of the verb.
The object is direct when it does not need prepositions to have complete meaning.
The object is indirect when it needs a preposition to have full meaning.
A verb phrase is the union of two or more verbs, placed in sequence in the same sentence, and expressing a single grammatical meaning.
