What do S, V and P stand for in English?

S is the abbreviation of subject, which means subject; V is the abbreviation of verb, indicating predicate; P is predictive, meaning predicative.

1. Subject: the object of the predicate, which is generally served by nouns, pronouns, indefinite pronouns, clauses and gerunds. The subject of sentence narration is generally located at the beginning of the sentence.

She likes dancing.

She likes dancing.

2. Predicate: Explain what the subject is, what to do or how to do it, which is acted by verbs. Subject and predicate should be consistent in person and number. Predicate verbs have many tenses, and predicate is the core of a sentence.

He is very clever.

He is very handsome.

Third, predicative, the concept of predicative is 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 contact, contact is the subject complement, not the predicative, because fall down is not a copula.

Extended data

Dominant phenotype (S+ linkage. V+P）

That is, the structure of "subject+copulative verb+predication" is mainly used to express the characteristics and identity of the subject. Among them, "tie" refers to the connecting verb and "table" refers to the predicative. The result of the combination of copula and predication is usually called copula structure. Ice cream tastes delicious.

Our school is not far from my home.

Is is the predicate of a copula verb, and adopts the simple present tense. Far is the predicative of adjectives. Our and my are adjective subject pronouns.

Cleaning the house takes a lot of time.

Cleaning is a gerund and the subject of a sentence. Needs is the predicate, using the simple present tense. Verbs take the form of the third person singular. The is the definite article.