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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.

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