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Subject,Verbs and Objects by Joydeep bhattacharya
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Grammar is the backbone of any language. As one cannot stand without a backbone, similarly cannot speak any language without learning its grammar. The basic technique to learn any language is to first understand its grammatical concept, then learn its usage, then test yourself by taking the exercise & at last use it to speak. But you can hardly find any source which provides such step by step learning. In English, any sentence is usually written in Subject – Verb -- Object structure. In such sentences the subject comes first, the verb or predicate second & lastly the object. For example Rosy helps Suzane. In this sentence Rosy is Subject, helps is verb & Suzane is object. Many of us sometimes get confused between Subject, Verb & Object. The brief description about these is given below. Subject: In any sentence the doer of the action or one who does something is called as the "Subject". Verb or Predicate: The action which is being done is called as "Verb". Object: The person or thing that is affected by the action or is the cause of the action is called as "Object". It basically answers the question "What the subject does?" For Example in the sentence Kareem loves Pizza, Kareem is subject as he is doing something (here he loves Pizza) & the object is "Pizza" (cause of the action). In the sentence John eats seafood, John is subject (doer), eats is verb (action) & seafood is Object (Something is being done for it, here it's been eaten by John). The point to be notice here is that the Subject can be a noun (name of a person, place or a thing) or a Pronoun (the words which replaces noun, e.g. He, She, They etc.). Whereas the object can be a noun, pronoun, phrases, clauses etc. Further the objects can be categorised in to two segments- Direct Object & Indirect Object. The direct object answers the question "What was affected by the action of verb?" or in simpler way we can define it as the person or thing that is directly affected by the verb. Whereas, the indirect object answers the question 'to whom', 'to what', 'for whom' or 'for what. We can use nouns, pronouns, phrases & clauses for both as Direct Object and Indirect Object. There are other structures of the sentence but SVO is the most common of them. Resources:- Learn English with the help of experts. Englishleap offers free and paid courses to improve your English online. Join the largest English learning community on the web. Useful resources:- English speaking course Similes Tenses
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