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CHAPTER III

THE SENTENCE

Different Kinds--Arrangement of Words--Paragraph


A sentence is an assemblage of words so arranged as to convey a determinate
sense or meaning, in other words, to express a complete thought or idea.
No matter how short, it must contain one finite verb and a subject or agent
to direct the action of the verb.

"Birds fly;" "Fish swim;" "Men walk;"--are sentences.

A sentence always contains two parts, something spoken about and something
said about it. The word or words indicating what is spoken about form what
is called the _subject_ and the word or words indicating what is said about
it form what is called the _predicate_.

In the sentences given, _birds_, _fish_ and _men_ are the subjects, while
_fly_, _swim_ and _walk_ are the predicates.

There are three kinds of sentences, _simple_, _compound_ and _complex_.