English grammar: What are subject, predicate, object and predicate?

First, the subject is the topic of conversation, which can be people, things, events, etc.

2. Predicate refers to the rest of the sentence except the subject, which is the part that explains the subject.

Third, the object is the object, result and receiver of the action (using transitive verbs).

Fourthly, the concepts of predicative and predicative are no longer used in modern English. Because the predicate belongs to the subject complement, there is a copula in front of the predicate, and the subject complement can be an intransitive verb besides the copula.

For example, in the sentence He is a teacher, the teacher is both a predicative and a subject complement. But in the sentence he fall down contained, contained is the subject complement, not the predicative, because fall down is not a copula.

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Five basic types of simple sentences

1) Master+Motion (SV) For example, I give up.

2) Master+Verb+Table (SVP) For example: I? I am very happy.

3) Subject+Verb+Object (SVO) For example, she studies Chinese.

4) Subject+verb+object+complement (SVOC) For example, time will prove that this is possible.

5) subject+verb+indirect object+direct object (SVOiOd) For example, he gave me a gift.