Types of subject and predicate, included in two-part sentences

Two-part sentences are simple sentences that have both a subject and a predicate in their basis . As a rule, both main terms are consistent among themselves in gender, number and person, for example: The young man laughed. Laughed the girl. - Children laughed.

If simple two-component sentences have only the main terms, they belong to the non-distributed ones: the Sun was setting. And if they include other members of the sentence, supplementing and revealing the meaning of what was said, they are common: The shining sun was setting over the horizon.

Two-part sentences. Subject matter

The subject is one of the main members of the sentence, which is expressed, as a rule, by a noun, pronoun or any part of the speech used in the meaning of the noun. Acting in the role of the subject, they are in the nominative case and are connected grammatically and in meaning with the predicate: 1) clouds floated in the sky. 2) We had fun from the heart. 3) Adults were sitting at the table. 4) The audience listened to the report.

Two-part sentences in the role of a subject can also have a verb in an indefinite form or a numeral. These parts of speech in this case do not acquire the meaning of the noun, but turn into the main member of the sentence, because they answer the question " what?" And the predicate is related to them: I wanted to chase the ball until the evening. (What did I want? -Going (ball)). To ask about this is very simple. (What's easy?) - Interrogate. Note that if you change the order of words in these sentences, they will become impersonal.

Predicate

In addition to the subject, the two-part sentence has one more main term - a predicate, indicating the action or the state in which the person or object designated by the subject is located. The main role in the predicative connection between the subject and the predicate belongs to the predicate. It should be clarified that this relationship is based on the form of words, their order, intonational connection and the availability of official words: I will tell the whole truth. There are people who think otherwise. ( Form of words ).

There are simple and compound predicates. Note that the future tense forms: I will sing, I will read , etc. - are considered a simple predicate, in contrast to the compound ones, in which there is a verb-bundle " was" and a semantic word: He was merry .

Particularly pronounced predicative connection with the help of intonation, in the case when the predicate is a noun or a complete adjective: Paris is the capital of fashion. Spring is sunny, early . In scientific speech, on the spot of this intonation pause, the word is often used: Hydrogen is gas .

Two-part sentences. Examples of a dash between subject and predicate

As a missing ligament between the subject and the predicate expressed by nouns standing in the nominative, a dash is placed: the moon is a satellite of the Earth. Hyacinth is a beautiful flower .

If the predicate has a negative particle " not" , then the dash is not set: Laughter is not a sin.

Also, dashes are put in sentences with subject and predicate in the indefinite form of the verb : Fly - soar above the clouds . Before words : "this", "here", "it means" , etc., facing the predicate, you also need a dash: Start work now - it does not finish it until night.