Sentence analysis: Introduction; Subject & Predicator

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• Studiejaar 1

Objectives

• I know what parsing is.
• I know what syntactic sentence analysis is.
• I can divide a simple sentence into sentence elements.
• I can identify the subject in a sentence.
• I can identify the predicator in a sentence.

Sentence analysis: Subject and Predicator

Ontleden - Analysis

At the beginning of the year 1 Grammar course you looked at word classes. Labelling words according to their part of speech like this is called parsing. In Dutch: taalkundig ontleden.

Now we are going to look at the function of sentence elements in building the sentence. This is called syntactic analysis. In Dutch: redekundig ontleden.

Book

             For this part of the grammar course 

you need the book 

Sentence Analysis 

by Koning & Van der Voort

"Birds fly." - Can you analyse this simple sentence?

	Birds	fly
Parsing:
Analysis:

predicator

noun

verb

subject

Which word classes
do you remember?

Which sentence elements
do you know?

Can you divide a simple sentence into sentence elements? Examples:

Birds fly.

Birds | fly.

Birds fly high.

Birds | fly | high.

Birds fly high in the sky.

Birds | fly | high | in the sky.

Now you! Divide this sentence into sentence elements:
She waved.

Again! Divide this sentence into sentence elements:
She waved at me.

Once more! Divide this sentence into sentence elements:
She waved at me frantically.

Another one! Divide this sentence into sentence elements:
"He met her yesterday."

Again! Divide this sentence into sentence elements:
"Her father met her mother at the high school prom ten years ago."

What do the previous example sentences show you?

1. Simple sentences often start with first subject, then predicator.
2. A sentence element can consist of one or more words.
3. The predicator always consists of at least one verb.
4. A, B and C are all correct.

Identify Subject:
I love chocolate chip cookies.

Identify Predicator:
I have always loved chocolate chip cookies.

Identify Subject:
How long have you been practising for the recital?

Identify Predicator:
How long have you been practising for the recital?