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English for Tourism & Hospitality (102) by Prof. Adel AlSheikh
English sentence structure
A sentence is defined as a complete thought, it is 'a
sequence of words whose first word starts with a
capital letter and whose last word is followed by an
end punctuation mark (period/full stop or question
mark or exclamation mark)'.
Subject/predicate: All sentences are about something
or someone. The something or someone that the
sentence is about is called the subject of the sentence.
In the following sentences the subjects are shown in
bold. Note how the subject is often, but not always,
the first thing in the sentence.
John often comes late to class.
My friend and I both have a dog named Spot.
Many parts of the Asian coastline were
destroyed by a tsunami in 2004.
The old hotel at the end of the street is going
to be knocked down to make way for a new
supermarket.
Sitting in a tree at the bottom of the garden
was a huge black bird with long blue tail
feathers.
The grade 7 Egyptian boy who has just
started the ICDL course speaks excellent
English.
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