Basic English

Question: What is sentence?

Answer: A group of words which has a subject and a predicate and gives clear and complete sense is called sentence.

Question: What are the components of sentence?

Answer:  A sentence usually has a subject, (a modal auxiliary verb/a helping verb), a verb and an object/a complement.

Question: What is subject?

Answer: In sentence doer of action or the person, thing or place which we are talking about is called subject.

Example:

He is writing a letter.
sub

Question: What is object?

Answer: Affected thing or person of a sentence is called object.

Example:

They are playing football.

                          Object

Question: What is complement?

Answer: A complement tell us something about the nature of the subject or object.

Note: Complement can be a noun, a noun phrase, adjective, pronoun or a number.

Example: jogging makes him healthy.
                                     obj   comp
2.He is healthy.
   sub   adj comp

Question: What is verb?

Answer: "Verb" is a word which shows an action or tells us status or condition of a person or a thing.

Note: "Verb" has got three forms.

IV               IIV               IIIV

Go               Went            Gone
Come           Came          Come
Drink            Drank         Drunk
Sleep            Slept           Slept

Question: What are modal auxiliary verbs?

Answer: Can, Could, may, might, will, would, shall, should, must, ought, to and used to are called modal auxiliary verbs.

Question: What are helping verbs?

Answer: When is , am, are, was, were, been, do, does, did are used before other verbs are called helping verbs.

Question: What is predicate?

Answer: After subject, rest of the words of a sentence (Helping verb, Main verb object etc.) are called predicate.

Question: What is (E.O.P.) The extention of predicate?

Answer: The words which extend the predicate usually after the object of a sentence are called extention of predicate.

Example:

We were playing football in the school ground.
sub        Predicate                E.O.P

Question: What are formal and informal languages?

Answer: Formal language: Formal language is usually used in literary english and with elders and seniors in a serious atmosphere.

Informal language: Informal language is usually used in spoken English with friends in a friendly atmosphere.