to be grammatically complete a sentence must have a subject and a predicate. The subject of a sentence is the word or words about which something is said or the world or words which answer the question who or what; the predicate tells something about the subject. Below are ten sentences showing the two essentials the subject and the predicate.
Subject Predicate1. God is good.
2. Love and patience are both godlike.
3. The heart of man is a swayed by various emotions.
4. The girl in the old house felt lonesome every day last year.
5. The individual owner of land does not create land value.
6 The big house was a woode which I built structure, on the farm.
THE SENTENCE. A group of words that expresses a complete meaning makes a sentence. in order to have a meaning, two elements are necessary: a subject, a person or thing to speak about, and a predicate, something to say about the person or thing.
SUBJECT AND PREDICATE, No sentence can exist without both subject and predicate. Suppose, for example, that somebody speaks the name Pagliacci. He has not spoken a sentence; for though he has named a person whom he can speak about, he has supplied no predicate.
Now, suppose somebody else utters the world laughs. He has named no person or thing to say his word about he has named no subject.
If the two words are joined, how over a sentence emerges: Pagliacci laughs. It is a "Common thought," a "Full meaning," The sentence may be extended by enlarging the subject.
The subject here is indicated by the single line drawn beneath it, the predicate by the double line.
Or by enlarging the predicate:
Pagliacci, the funniest clown in all Europe, laughs mockingly, bitterly, ironically. Consider the following group of words:
The beautiful girl of the fale, a drudge by day and a princess by night. Here, a person ins named and described in some detail, but the group of words appears somehow incomplete: something else in needed. By adding has vanished, the need is supplied.
The beautiful girl of the fairy tale, a drudge by day and a princess by night, has vanished.
The long group of words underlined simple enlarges the subject, which essentially consists of the word girl; a predicated was required and has vanished fulfills the requirement.
Now consider this group of words: have been stolen by a highly organized and exceedingly clever gang of international thieves operating from a dozen ports throughout the Near East.
Here, again, something is lacking; much has been said but about what? The subject is lacking.
The jewels have been stolen by a highly organized and exceedingly clever gang of international thieves operating from a dozen ports throughout the Near East.
