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A note on sentence structure
1. Simple sentences
In written English, all sentences contain a Subject → Verb structure. The subject always precedes the
verb, except in questions where the order is reversed.
S
V
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an elementary particle.
The subject may be one word, but it is usually a group of words centred around a noun. The verb,
which can indicate an action, a state, or simply serve to link the subject to other information, may
also consist of more than one word. Various other sentence elements may be placed before or after
the Subject → Verb structure:
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