ENG 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Independent Clause, Dependent Clause, Starbucks
8 Dec 2016
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In casual situations, we often use a kind of shorthand, because we know our audience will fill in the gaps. A sentence contains a subject and a predicate . the subject , usually a noun or pronoun, names the topic of the sentence; the predicate , which always includes a verb, says what the subject is or does. The subject and the predicate each may contain only one word. Usually, however, both the subject and the predicate contain more than one word. Birds of many kinds fly south in the fall. A sentence may contain more than one subject or predicate . Birds and butterflies fly south in the fall . Birds fly south in the fall and return north in the spring. At times, the subject comes after the predicate . A clause is a group of words containing a subject and predicate. An independent clause can function alone as a sentence: birds fly.
